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President Obama to Youth of Color: You’re on Your Own: Mike Males, Mar 4, 2014; Mike Males critiques the President's new My Brother's Keeper initiative, asking why the federal government is not investing in measures to reduce youth poverty.
California's Urban Violent Crime Rate Falls in First Half of 2013: Feb 28, 2014; CJCJ released a fact sheet today using new FBI crime data for the first six months of 2013.
Inflamed Rhetoric, Senseless Killings, Light Verdicts: Grownups, “Stand Your Ground”: Mike Males, Feb 24, 2014; Senior Research Fellow Mike Males examines myths related to youth crime in light of the Michael Dunn verdict.
OP-ED: Are Teenage Crime Proneness and Adolescent Risk Taking Obsolete Myths?: Mike Males, Feb 20, 2014; Mike Males, Senior Research Fellow is Op-ed is featured in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.
Is "Child Prostitution" the Real "Epidemic"?: Mike Males, Feb 18, 2014; There are much larger, unmentioned "epidemics" behind what we call "child prostititution" authorities and media splashes are refusing to confront
Only Certain Young Victims Matter: Mike Males, Feb 11, 2014; Americans fixate on the 5% of killings that involve youthful gunmen and/or mass shooters and ignore the other 95%. Unfortunately, we largely dismiss the 99% of rapes that do not involve young perpetrators and social media.
California Counties, Realignment, and Crime Trends: 58 Different Stories: Feb 7, 2014; California Progress Report features an Op-ed by Senior Research Fellow, Mike Males, discussing CJCJ's January 2014 report on Realignment and crime.
Philip Seymour Hoffmann and the middle-aged drug epidemic: Feb 4, 2014; Celebrated actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death at age 46 from an apparent heroin overdose is yet another indictment of the ongoing failure of drug war officials.
Study: Can't link crime increases to realignment: Jan 31, 2014; News media article highlighting CJCJ's recent report on Realignment and crime.
OP-ED: Pretending to “Care About Kids”—But Really Caring About Pot: Jan 29, 2014; Mike Males discusses the scapegoating of youth to promote the national drug policy dialogue.
California's 58 Crime Rates: Realignment and Crime in 2012: Jan 29, 2014; CJCJ's interactive map and a new report using 2012 data show 58 radically different Realignment experiences, with no statewide pattern emerging.
The White House Should Quit Grandstanding and Confront Serious Realities About Rape: Mike Males, Jan 24, 2014; Rape and sexual assault are too devastating for the kind of superficial exploitation the Obama adminstration, leading interests, and the press display.
Another Round of "Knockout Game" Idiocy: Mike A. Males, Nov 26, 2013; Many reporters and experts seem sadistically bent on creating fear in an aging population by manufacturing endless teen-violence panics
Knockout game: Videos of the teen attacks go viral; the crime’s not viral: Nov 20, 2013; Knockout game: A violent teen prank – seen in videos, but probably still an isolated trend – highlights the need to establish strong connections between young people and their community.
Partnership for a Drug-Wrecked America: Mike Males, Oct 17, 2013; The Partnership has been an instrumental lobby spending billions of dollars on decades of misdirected, billion-dollar "drug free" ad campaigns that are really designed to protect powerful legal-drug interests and major constituencies. By using emotional images and misinformation to divert attention from real drug issues and prevent sensible solutions, the Partnership has functioned as a key promoter of drug abuse.
OP-ED: Why Don’t Youth Curfews Work?: Oct 14, 2013; Senior Research Fellow Mike Males examines curfews for young people in an Op-ed released in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.
Today on Your Call: Do youth curfews make a city safer?: Oct 9, 2013; KALW radio's Your Call discusses the ineffectiveness of curfews with Mike Males, in light of the recent curfew proposal in Oakland, CA.
A Modest Proposal for an Oakland Curfew: Mike Males, Sep 30, 2013; A youth curfew has not only proven ineffective, it targets a group that commits less than 7% of Oakland's crime. Why not a curfew that targets the demographic responsible for 80% of the city's crime?
Weed more likely than rape to get immigrant detained, report charges: Sep 27, 2013; A new report suggests that a suspected undocumented immigrant convicted of possessing pot may be more likely to face immigration detention than one who’s been convicted of rape.
Are Immigration Detainer Practices Rational?: Sep 17, 2013; New study casts doubt on efficacy of immigration and public safety intersection.
Op-ed: Statistical Bigotry is Just Bigotry: Sep 16, 2013; CJCJ's Senior Research Fellow, Mike Males, is featured in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.
Monterey County has among highest imprisonment rates: Sep 13, 2013; A report released this week by a nonprofit advocacy group, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, says there are wide disparities across California in how state prisoner realignment is being implemented.
Counties' continued disparities in Realignment implementation: Sep 10, 2013; Fact sheet on county-by-county implementation of AB 109 Realignment using data through June 30, 2013.
Post-Realignment prison admissions increase in 2013: Sep 10, 2013; Fact sheet analyzing new prison admissions by quarter shows admissions for property and drug crimes are on the rise in 2013.
Immigration Detainer Requests for Low Priority Marijuana Arrests: Aug 29, 2013; Fact Sheet on ICE hold requests for people with marijuana convictions in California, Oct. 2009 to Feb. 2013.