Policy Center: Public Policy
Criminals and violent offenders getting older and older… not “younger”
submitted on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:55 by Mike A. MalesHundreds of news stories and expert commentaries, with few exceptions, depict juvenile crime as soaring, becoming more violent, and involving ever-younger killers and criminals. Occasionally, youth crime is depicted as declining, but only when interest groups are positioned to take credit.
The Myth of an “Immigrant Crime Wave”
submitted on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 16:23 by Mike A. MalesAmerican Conservative publisher Ron Unz has always taken a refreshingly wonkish approach to public policy.
Three judges and the California prison system
submitted on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 13:09 by Daniel MacallairThe recent decision by the three judge panel in the Coleman/Plata case should be applauded as a short but positive step forward in forcing some degree of sanity upon the broken California prison system. Unfortunately, the fact that a panel of Federal judges was forced to step in and force the state to make long overdue policy decisions is simply another poignant reminder of ou
Chicago School Sociology is Alive and Well at the LA Times
submitted on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 06:15 by Randall G. SheldenChildren of war
submitted on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 14:06 by Randall G. SheldenI was simply going through my usual morning routine, scanning various media outlets on the Internet, when I checked Bob Herbert’s latest column in the New York Times. I suppose it was
Kids Die all but invisibly
submitted on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. Shel...I thought that after studying and writing about juvenile justice for more than 30 years nothing would shock me, that I had seen and heard everything. I was wrong. The title of a recent story in the Los Angeles Times gives a hint to what it is about: “Flawed county system lets kids die invisibly.”
Dropping Out and Crime
submitted on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. Shel...It has become a truism that there is a close connection between school failure and juvenile crime, as demonstrated by literally hundreds of studies over the past 100 years. As if to remind us once again, here comes yet another study, this one by the California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara. As reported in today’s
The end of an era?
submitted on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. SheldenA story in the Los Angeles Times caught my eye. The title tells most of the story: “California to close its largest juvenile prison.” The institution is the Heman G.
Treating kids under 12 as adults
submitted on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. Shel...A new study released by the Lyndon B.
Juvenile Mental Health Outlook
submitted on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:39 by Daniel Macallai...Listen to Daniel Macallair, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, speak on the Juvenile Mental Health Outlook on KCBS