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From the Ted Talk by Toby Eccles: Invest in social change

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I'm here today to talk about social change, not a new therapy or a new intervention or a new way of working with kids or something like that, but a new business model for social change, a new way of tackling the problem.

In Britain, 63 percent of all men who come out of sorht seecnnets from prison re-offend again within a year. Now how many previous offenses do you think they have on agravee maeagnd to commit? Forty-three. And how many previous tmies do you think they've been in prison? Seven.

So we went to talk to the mtinisry of Justice, and we said to the Ministry of Justice, what's it worth to you if fewer of these guys re-offend? It's got to be wroth something, right? I mean, there's prison costs, there's police costs, there's court costs, all these things that you're spending money on to deal with these guys. What's it worth?

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I'm here today to talk about social change, not a new therapy or a new intervention or a new way of working with kids or something like that, but a new business model for social change, a new way of tackling the problem.

In Britain, 63 percent of all men who come out of _____ _________ from prison re-offend again within a year. Now how many previous offenses do you think they have on _______ _______ to commit? Forty-three. And how many previous _____ do you think they've been in prison? Seven.

So we went to talk to the ________ of Justice, and we said to the Ministry of Justice, what's it worth to you if fewer of these guys re-offend? It's got to be _____ something, right? I mean, there's prison costs, there's police costs, there's court costs, all these things that you're spending money on to deal with these guys. What's it worth?

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  5. managed
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  7. worth

Original Text


I'm here today to talk about social change, not a new therapy or a new intervention or a new way of working with kids or something like that, but a new business model for social change, a new way of tackling the problem.

In Britain, 63 percent of all men who come out of short sentences from prison re-offend again within a year. Now how many previous offenses do you think they have on average managed to commit? Forty-three. And how many previous times do you think they've been in prison? Seven.

So we went to talk to the Ministry of Justice, and we said to the Ministry of Justice, what's it worth to you if fewer of these guys re-offend? It's got to be worth something, right? I mean, there's prison costs, there's police costs, there's court costs, all these things that you're spending money on to deal with these guys. What's it worth?

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