Barry Goldstein, author of the book, The Quincy Solution, was the keynote speaker on Sunday at the 21st Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference. He argued that we can “save $500 billion every year by implementing the proven practices of the Quincy Solution.”
In part two of our coverage, Mr. Goldstein lays out some alternative approaches in addition to the Quincy Solution, which he believes can help reduce domestic violence.
Mr. Goldstein noted that many people are concerned by the fact that there are too many people in jail, “and here I am advocating strict enforcement of laws.” He argues, “The reality is that this is going to result in less people in jail rather than more.”
In Quincy, the media got into the act. For instance, they published the pictures of men who had warrants out which resulted in pushing the police to make the arrests. He said, “The Boston Globe covered a number of stories about Quincy which sent the message that you don’t commit this crime in Quincy.”
He argued, “Remember, men are able to control their behavior. If they think there will be consequences for them, they don’t do it.” So he said, “When they found out there were consequences in Quincy, they stopped doing it.”
[For more of this story, written by David Greenwald, go to http://www.davisvanguard.org/2...onger-life-part-two/]
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