The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punish…

W. E. B. Du Bois
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The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, p.115, Oxford University Press
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The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, p.115, Oxford University Press

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