Crime Theory Demolished: Poverty is NOT the Root Cause of Criminality!

John Maher of Delancey Street: A guide to peaceful revolution in America; By Grover Sales [*Amazon*] “Delancey Street is an incredible mixture of pure idealism and hard practicality. It is the best and the most successful [criminal rehabilitation] organization I have studied in the world” — Dr. Karl Menninger

It simply amazes me how so many criminology academics, with strong opinions about the root causes for criminality; don't bother to conduct brutally honest conversations with brutally honest former criminals themselves, to find out exactly what it is that motivated their criminality.

John Maher’s criminal career started at age 14 in New York City, as a pickpocket, then thief, then armed robber, and drug addict, etc. With the help of Chuck Dedericks from Synanon, Maher then rehabilitated himself, and started the most successful rehabilitation program in the world: Delancey Street Foundation. Thirty plus years after Delancey Street was started by Maher with $100 loan from a loanshark, it has successfully rehabilitated over 14,000 former drug addicts, violent gang criminals, and delinquents; which has cost US Taxpayers exactly ZERO; because Delancey Street refuses goverment funding.

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