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Concluding remarks to McCaffrey's speech were given by the Kennedy School of Government's Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Mark H. Moore and Deborah Prothrow-Stith, assistant dean of Government and Community Programs at the School of Public Health...
...took place in or around their school. According to the Centers for Disease Control, an African-American male born in 1989 has a 1 in 27 chance of being murdered during his lifetime. The cost of this violence is staggering. Former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health, Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, estimates the cost at $60 billion a year, 85% of which is underwritten by tax payers. But the emotional cost is unmeasurable...
...illustrate the American emphasis on incarceration rather than prevention. Prothrow-Stith related the story of one teenager convicted of murder and sentenced to 73 years in jail in a city where the government could not fully fund its summer jobs program...
...Prothrow-Stith spoke of the prevalence of violence in today's society and discussed the role of public policy in curtailing this social...
Quoting a famous African proverb which says "it takes a village to raise a child," Prothrow-Stith said that high-risk children who grow up in "unhealthy" surroundings may be incapable of benefiting from parental care...