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Using Community-Based Alternatives to Best Address Status Offenses
- Brian Goldstein, Dec 17, 2013
What is the best way to address the challenges of youth who break curfew, skip school, or runaway from home? Local justice leaders and policymakers would be wise to support cost-effective and successful alternatives to confinement.
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Oakland City Council Considers Youth Curfew
- Nov 12, 2013
KCBS reports on the proposed Oakland youth curfew which is being considered tonight by the Board of Supervisors.
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CJCJ Newsletter - Saying goodbye to CJCJ's Supportive Living Program
- Oct 31, 2013
CJCJ's Supportive Living Program closes its doors and policy staff report on the ineffectiveness of curfews.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Oakland youth curfew proposed to help fight crime
- Sep 23, 2013
"It is pretty ineffective," Daniel Macallair said of a curfew. "Most of it is for symbolic purposes. It is kind of the fallback policy for policymakers when they don't know what else to do."
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What a Drop in Youth Crime Says About Curfews and Boot Camps: Nothing Good
- Oct 31, 2012
- What a Drop in Youth Crime Says About Curfews and Boot Camps: Nothing Good Take Part, October 30, 2012
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Council Turns Against Curfews
- Oct 11, 2012
- Council Turns Against Curfews Jackson Free Press, October 11, 2012
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Why a Curfew in Oakland Is Still a Bad Idea
- Aug 16, 2012
- Why a Curfew in Oakland Is Still a Bad Idea East Bay Express, August 16, 2012
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Oakland police chief pushing for youth curfew
- Aug 9, 2012
- Oakland police chief pushing for youth curfew ABC7 News, August 3, 2012
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Curfew an ineffective distraction from real solutions
- Jul 26, 2012
- Curfew an ineffective distraction from real solutions Connecticut Post, July 25, 2012
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Lilburn latest city to add curfew for juveniles
- Jul 23, 2012
- Lilburn latest city to add curfew for juveniles Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 22, 2012
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When Juvenile Crime Happens in San Diego
- Apr 2, 2012
When Juvenile Crime Happens in San Diego Voice of San Diego, April 2, 2012
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Hundreds of Kids Arrested on an Unproven Hunch
- Mar 12, 2012
Hundreds of Kids Arrested on an Unproven Hunch Voice of San Diego, March 11, 2012
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The problem with teen curfews [video blog]
- Mike Males, Nov 15, 2011
- California Correctional Crisis wrote an excellent blog discussing juvenile curfews yesterday, recommending that before introducing juvenile curfews we should know more about juvenile crime rates. The blog post highlights several articles including recent op-eds by CJCJ's Senior Research Fellow Mike Males and Communications Specialist Selena Teji , and a study by Patrick Kline that suggests curfews are effective overall at reducing crime for juveniles below curfew age. As Mike Males points…
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Wrong ideas: Curfews and Incarceration
- Nov 14, 2011
Wrong ideas: Curfews and Incarceration Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 14, 2011
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Philly Greens Call Curfew, "new Jim Crow"
- Oct 31, 2011
- Philly Greens Call Curfew, "new Jim Crow" OpEdNews.com, October 28, 2011
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The Trouble With Youth Curfews
- Oct 27, 2011
- The Trouble With Youth Curfews Atlantic Cities, October 26, 2011
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Oakland right to be skeptical of curfews
- Oct 18, 2011
- Oakland right to be skeptical of curfews San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 2011
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To Curb Juvenile Crime and Violence, Oakland Debates Teen Curfew
- Oct 4, 2011
- To Curb Juvenile Crime and Violence, Oakland Debates Teen Curfew Bay Citizen, October 4, 2011
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Why Curfews Don't Work
- Sep 7, 2011
- Why Curfews Don't Work East Bay Express, September 7, 2011
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Banning Youths From Streets May Make Us Less Safe: Mike Males
- Sep 1, 2011
- Banning Youths From Streets May Make Us Less Safe: Mike Males Bloomberg Businessweek, August 31, 2011
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Curfews: Crime Fighting Or Racial Profiling?
- Aug 18, 2011
- Curfews: Crime Fighting Or Racial Profiling? NPR, August 17, 2011
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What communities need is MORE youth ON the streets
- Mike Males, Aug 8, 2011
- While a large majority of American cities have juvenile curfews on their books, cities elsewhere in the world apply curfews only to serious offenders, not to youths committing no crime other than being young and in public. Americans seem eager to admit what should been deeply shameful: that we grownups have created urban areas so dangerous, and we are so frightened of our young people, that federal proposals for daytime and nighttime curfews would banish youths from being in public all but a…
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