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“Then a professor at Princeton, married and the father of three young children, Mr. DiIulio became a prominent voice in the world of criminology with his superpredator theory. But although a respected academic, he was suddenly questioned by peers, who said he seemed to be providing cover for what they considered partisan politics.
”He became a sensationalist, a simplistic analyst who rather toadied to that point of view,” said Norval Morris, professor of law at the University of Chicago and co-editor of the Oxford History of the Prison. ”He should have known better than that.”
It was shortly afterward, Mr. DiIulio said, while praying at Mass on Palm Sunday in 1996, that he had an ”epiphany — a conversion of heart, a conversion of mind,” that changed him from a complacent Roman Catholic to one who ”took his religion seriously.”
