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Mary Graw Leary is a professor of law at the Catholic University of America and an expert in criminal law, victimization, exploitation, human trafficking, missing persons, technology, and the Fourth Amendment. Before joining academia, Leary's work addressed the abuse and exploitation of children and women, child pornography, sex trafficking, computer facilitated crimes against children, and family violence cases. She has served as policy consultant and deputy director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Office of Legal Counsel, director of the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse, assistant U.S. attorney, deputy chief of the Domestic Violence Unit for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and assistant district attorney in the Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Leary clerked for the Hon. Sue L. Robinson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. She is the lead co-author of Perspectives of Missing Persons Cases, the only comprehensive multi-disciplinary book on this type of victimization.