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Guest Columnist: Invest in city's ex-criminals

June 22, 2009
Delaware County Daily Times

For more than a decade my reports on Chester’s socio-economic and political conditions extensively examined the major causes for poverty, social-disorganization and the impact of institutional racism on unemployment, school dropout and crime/recidivism rates. I’m now realizing that, for all of these years, I have reflected the Classical-Sociological school of thought Larry J. Siegal speaks about in his book “Criminology,” 2009, which is my pre-text to this essay, “Can the Theory of Justice Reinvestment Aid Chester?” ... According to the Alliance for Excellent Education, “Unless high schools are able to graduate their students at higher rates, more than 12 million students will drop out during the course of the next decade, the results will be a lost to the nation of $3 trillion.” See www.all4ed.org.


Delaware County Daily Times