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CJCJ in the news: You can’t blame immigrants for gun violence
- Jul 25, 2014
CJCJ's Mike Males on the truth about gun violence, gun control, and youth of color.
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Who's Really Dying from Guns in the United States?
- Mike Males, Jul 7, 2014
32,351 Americans died from gunfire in 2011. Nearly half of them were older white men shooting themselves.
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Who's Threatening Murrieta's "Safety"?
- Mike Males, Jul 2, 2014
A California city's mayor and shouting protestors claim 140 Latino women and child immigrants threaten their town's "safety." The city's own crime statistics suggest otherwise.
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An American Gun Death Every 16 Minutes in 2011
- Mike Males, Jun 19, 2014
Senior Research Fellow Mike Males: But no one likes to talk about who's dying from guns, or how.
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Scared of Gun Violence? Run INTO a School!*
- Mike Males, Jun 16, 2014
School and college campuses account for 5 out of every 10,000 shootings in the United States, but occupy 90% of our discussion of gun violence.
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“Demographic Scapegoating”: How Leaders and Interests Profit from Social Crises
- Mike Males, Jun 6, 2014
While invoking tones of concern and inclusion, American leaders exploit social problems to flatter powerful older constituencies by stigmatizing young people
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New Complications Challenge No-Complications-Allowed Gun Debate
- Mike Males, Jun 4, 2014
A gun-control lobby's incisive report disputes mass-shooting dogmas. A woman-hating shooter's rampage defies popular answers. Yet, America's gun policy debate remains rooted in ancient prejudices.
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Fresno County: Adult Arrests and Incarceration
- Mike Males, Apr 30, 2014
This analysis utilizes official statewide data sources to examine Fresno County’s state and local incarceration trends in comparison to the statewide average.
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Why not a war on child poverty?
- Mike Males, Apr 22, 2014
Senior Research Fellow Mike Males is featured in Reuters discussing youth crime and poverty.
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Why Statistical Bigotry Is Just Bigotry, Round 2
- Mike Males, Apr 2, 2014
Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson shows once again how statistics are misused to justify prejudicial policing
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Whatever Happened to the Ad War on Drugs?
- Mar 24, 2014
CJCJ's Mike Males is featured in Advertising Age and highlights the problems with commercials created by Partnership at Drugfree.org
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California's Radical De-Incarceration Experiment
- Mar 13, 2014
Mike Males discusses California's deincarceration movement in the California Progress Report.
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OP-ED: The Teenage Brain, New Science or the Same Old Prejudice?
- Mike Males, Mar 11, 2014
Senior Research Fellow Mike Males explores youth development, behavior, and prejudice in an Op-ed featured in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Study: Can't link crime increases to realignment
- Jan 31, 2014
News media article highlighting CJCJ's recent report on Realignment and crime.
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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.
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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.
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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.