Kamala Harris plagiarized parts of her book on criminal justice: report

According to a report by Austrian plagiarism expert Dr. According to an investigation conducted by Stefan Weber and confirmed by journalist Christopher Rufo, Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized significant portions of her 2009 book on criminal justice.

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“We have independently confirmed multiple violations comparable in severity to the plagiarism in former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s doctoral dissertation,” Rufo said in a thread on X.

Vice President Harris’ book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Saferco-authored with Joan Hamilton, contained over a dozen alleged cases of plagiarism, some minor and some serious.

The book was published as Harris prepared to run for attorney general of California.

Rufo pointed to a 2008 NBC News report that Harris appeared to have copied, changing only minor details without proper attribution.

The book rearranged the information from the article somewhat and added a few additional words or phrases, but retained a significant portion of the verbatim text and did not significantly alter the material.

In a seemingly more obvious example of plagiarism, a passage in Harris’ book almost exactly mirrored a passage in a press release from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The only differences between Harris’ book and the press release were the single word “additional” added by Harris, her use of the word “percent” instead of the percent sign, and her use of the states’ full names instead of their postal abbreviations.

Harris even copied two passages from Wikipedia, only changing “in order to” to “to” and “offering” to “it bot”.

“There is certainly a breach of standards here. “Harris and her co-author copied long passages almost verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which meets the textbook definition of plagiarism,” Rufo said in his report.

The new allegations surrounding Harris’ book echo the plagiarism controversy that plagued former Harvard President Claudine Gay and ultimately forced her to resign.

Rufo presented evidence suggesting that Gay plagiarized large portions of her doctoral thesis.