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This week the number of murders in Philadelphia topped 300 for the year. One group of men is trying to stop the violence by going door-to-door in one of the city's most crime-ridden neighborhoods. WHYY's Susan Phillips spent an evening in the Strawberry Mansion section of North Philadelphia and filed this report. Listen »
The sudden death of a child is made worse when it's violent crime that takes that life. WHYY Morning Edition's Brenda Jorett talked with Mothers-in-Charge founder Dorothy Johnson-Speight and Michelle Spry about their horrific losses. Listen »
  The one year anniversary of a brutal attack on a young Liberian teenage boy in Southwest Philadelphia is soon approaching. The beating shocked the boy's family who had just arrived in the United States after years of hardship in Africa. Stephanie Marudas reports. Photos (from left): Fourteen year old Jacob Gray in his Southwest Philadelphia home. Jacob's father, Joseph Gray, using a sewing machine donated by his church to earn extra money.Listen »
Philadelphia officials have responded to the rising murder rate in a variety of ways, from cracking down on youth curfew violators to increasing the number of police officers on the streets. The city's also trying one approach that hasn't been attempted before -- identifying potential murderers before they even think of committing a crime. Brad Linder reports. Listen »
Brenda Jorett talks with Dr. Dan Gottlieb about theories on why some people gravitate to crime and how some people can be helped in breaking the cycle of crime. Listen »
Monday, October 2nd:
Radio Times, 10 a.m.
Marty's guest on Radio Times is David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention Strategies and professor of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He directed the Boston Gun Project, a ground-breaking problem-solving policing exercise aimed at serious youth violence. Its chief intervention, Operation Ceasefire, was responsible for a citywide reduction among those 24 and under. Could Kennedy's strategy work in Philadelphia?
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Voices in the Family, noon
"A Grief Like No Other" A violent death brings a different kind of grief to the surviving family members and loved ones. Those left behind may experience intense feelings of guilt, anger, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and years of dealing with legal ramifications. Philadelphia therapist Kathleen O'Hara knows both sides of this coin: As a therapist, she has counseled many people through this kind of grief. As a mother, she saw her worst nightmare realized when her college-age son Aaron was murdered on Memorial Day, 1999. In her new book, "A Grief Like No Other" O'Hara recalls her own journey after Aaron's death, and offers guidance and steps for families and friends who are grieving.
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Tuesday, October 3rd:
Radio Times, 10 a.m.
Guest host Alan Tu talks with Michael Corriero author of Judging Children As Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System. Corriero draws directly from his experience as the founding judge of a special juvenile court to propose a new approach to dealing with youthful offenders charged with committing violent crimes. Since 1992, Judge Corriero has presided over the Manhattan Youth Part, a New York City court specifically designed to discipline teenage offenders. Its guiding principles are that children are developmentally different from adults and that a judge can be a formidable force in shaping the lives of children who appear in court. Judging Children as Children makes a compelling argument for a better system of justice that recognizes the mental, emotional, and physical abilities of young people and provides them with an opportunity to be rehabilitated as productive members of society instead of being locked up in prisons.
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Wednesday, October 4th:
Radio Times, 10 a.m.
Marty Moss-Coane's guest is physician and researcher John Rich. Rich was selected as a MacArthur Fellow for his work in understanding young African- American males' experience with violence. He conducts in-depth personal interviews with young black men to understand and underscore the contextual details attending prevalent illnesses and the cycle of violence that creates recurrent injury risk. By focusing on the realities of the lives of young African-American men, he designs new models of health care that stretch across the boundaries of public health, education, social service, and justice systems to engage young men in caring for themselves and their peers.
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A Special Live Broadcast of Voices in the Family at noon
Dr. Dan Gottlieb will be joined by Phil Goldsmith, a former chief operating officer for the city of Philadelphia and also former CEO of the Philadelphia School District and Carolyn Davis from the Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board. Goldsmith will discuss the efforts of the city to prevent and end violence. Goldsmith recently (on September 26th) went to Harrisburgh to urge the Pennsylvania legislature to take a more proactive approach to the problem of violence, and to adopt stricter handgun laws. During his time as CEO of the Philadelphia School System, Goldsmith ordered metal detectors to be placed in high schools and made generating a public awareness about violence in the community a major priority. Carolyn Davis, will talk about the research she has done over the last two years on violence. Davis started a four-part series in 2004 called "All Join Hands." Its mission is to focus on people who are trying to stop violence and also to inform the readers on how to get involved.
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