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Counties’ continued decline in reliance on state youth facilities: May 30, 2013; CJCJ’s California Sentencing Institute (CASI) released its 2011 juvenile justice data today, showing a continued trend away from state confinement and towards community-based options for high-needs youth.
Brave Experiment at a California Boys Ranch Pays Off: May 27, 2013; Increasingly, experts are recognizing that the best way to improve public safety is to rely less on state correctional institutions for treating youth offenders, and more on the dynamic therapeutic approach delivered at the county level.
OP-ED: Opening Our Eyes to Uncomfortable Truths: May 24, 2013; ...when we take into account the level of poverty, kids don’t commit crimes at a higher rate than adults. Take a few seconds and read the previous sentence again.
Youth Gangs in the Twenty-First Century: Back to the Future, Part II: Randall Shelden, Ph.D., May 16, 2013; This is the second in a series of blogs adapted from the 4th edition of Youth Gangs in American Society by Shelden along with Sharon Tracy and William Brown (Cengage, 2013).
Underaged & Suppressed?: May 3, 2013; Mike Males asserts that young people are politically vulnerable and scapegoated when it comes to gun control laws. Listen to the discussion on HuffPost Live.
OP-ED: The Gun Debate, Round 2: Let’s Learn From Young People, Not Demonize Them: May 1, 2013; "Bad information breeds expedient, ineffective policy, as exemplified by the administration’s surviving gun initiatives..."
212: A Modern History of Youth Bashing – With Mike Males: Apr 27, 2013; Author, sociologist and outspoken youth advocate Mike Males shares his insights on the social, political and cultural problem of blaming, shaming and framing youth.
Gangs taking to the suburbs, including Albemarle: Mar 30, 2013; Treating people who come from places where gangs proliferate as gang members themselves only perpetuates the cycle, Maccallair said.
Radio Smart Talk: School Safety: Mar 26, 2013; What Sandy Hook [-] did was shine a spotlight on school safety.
Youth incarceration at 35-year low nationally: Brian Heller de Leon, Mar 7, 2013; The Annie E. Casey Foundation released a new report this week highlighting a national 35-year low in youth incarceration with drops across almost every state. Despite this decline in youth crime, it is clear that state and local policies do not reflect an investment in achieving the goals of long-term public safety.
Recognizing the symptoms of trauma in justice-involved youth: Selena Teji, Feb 5, 2013; Justice-involved youth have complex histories that not only contributed to their delinquency but present challenges for rehabilitation. These compound factors exacerbate a lack of self-confidence, learning difficulties, physical disabilities, and mental health issues.
In Our View: Vigilance on CampusClark County Safe Schools Task Force has districts working together: Jan 19, 2013; In Our View: Vigilance on CampusClark County Safe Schools Task Force has districts working together Columbian, January, 18, 2013
Zero-Tolerance Policies in U.S. Schools are Ineffective and Unaffordable: Jan 14, 2013; Zero-Tolerance Policies in U.S. Schools are Ineffective and Unaffordable Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, January 14, 2013
California judge finds boy guilty of murdering neo-Nazi father: Jan 14, 2013; California judge finds boy guilty of murdering neo-Nazi father KPCC Radio, January 14, 2013
Reengaging disconnected youth in a tough economy: Jan 8, 2013; While effects of the recent recession and slow economic rebound on the U.S. labor market have been well documented, less attention has been paid specifically to youth unemployment and its potential long-term impacts . The rate of employment for 16-19 year-olds in the U.S. has dropped 42% since 2000, leaving 3 of 4 such youth jobless. Even brief spells of youthful unemployment can cause what the Economist calls "wage scars "--decreased earning power lasting well into workers' adult years. …
SF juvenile probation chief explores arming officers: Dec 21, 2012; SF juvenile probation chief explores arming officers Bay Citizen, December 21, 2012
Who's really murdering our children--and why won't we talk about it?: Mike Males, Dec 20, 2012; President Obama, in the wake of the massacre of 26 children and adults in Newtown, Connecticut's, Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, says "we are not doing enoug to protect our children ." He's right, far more than he acknowledges. How can we possibly "do enough" when the president, interests, and media commentators won't even talk about what the real dangers to our kids are?Here's a scary fact neither the president nor other commentators will contemplate, because it's just too…
Gun nuts run amok: Randall Shelden, Dec 18, 2012; This past summer a young man named James Holmes bought four guns at local shops and more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet in the two months prior to opening up inside a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado. Now we have still another man (they always seem to be men) going berserk in an elementary school in Connecticut , killed at least 30 people, 20 of them children. One recent report noted that "the gun murder rate in the U.S. is almost 20 times higher than the next 22 richest…
American gun debate stifled by myth, dogma, and resistance to crucial information: Mike Males, Dec 18, 2012; During Barack Obama's presidency, 3,000 American children and teenagers were murdered by violence inflicted by their parents and caretakers --a toll equal to last Friday's gun massacre at Newtown, Connecticut's, Sandy Hook Elementary School every 10 days. An equal number of children were killed by parents too addicted, mentally ill, or uncaring to provide vital care. Has Obama eulogized these thousands of young victims--far more than are murdered in schools, colleges, theaters, and malls--as…
Lead and criminality: Is the EPA America's top crime-buster?: Mike Males, Dec 14, 2012; Why has crime, especially younger-age crime, plunged so dramatically in virtually every jurisdiction over the last 20 years regardless of its anti-crime policy or non-policy? We looked at standard explanations for the startling fact that today's California and national youth and young adults represent the least criminal and violent generation ever reliably assessed. None suffice. Most social and institutional conditions thought to generate more crime have not improved. Youth poverty rates…
The Incomplete Story Told by California's Declining Juvenile Arrest Rates: Dec 13, 2012; The Incomplete Story Told by California's Declining Juvenile Arrest Rates Huffington Post, December 12, 2012
Decriminalizing Marijuana Benefits Youths, ACLU Investigates New Study: Dec 12, 2012; Decriminalizing Marijuana Benefits Youths, ACLU Investigates New Study The Inquisitr, December 11, 2012
Charging Youth as Adults: What's the Impact?: Dec 11, 2012; The juvenile justice system works best when it rehabilitates youthful offenders and gives them the life skills to succeed. To solely emphasize punishment, neither serves the best interest of the youth nor of society-at-large. However, there remains an underlying tension between punishment and rehabilitation, specifically when the youth is charged with a particularly offensive crime. Given these circumstances, states across the country have transfer procedures in place, which can transfer…
CJCJ's Kimo Uila presents at TCWF Conference, Dec. 13: Dec 10, 2012; On December 12-13, 2012, The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) is holding its annual Violence Prevention and California Peace Prize conference in Los Angeles, CA. CJCJ's Director of Juvenile Justice Services, Kimo Uila , will be presenting on Thursday, December 13, as a panelist on Concurrent Workshop III: Ensuring Public Safety Through Successful Juvenile Re-Entry . This panel will explore juvenile re-entry programs in three major counties in the state: Los Angeles, San Francisco and…
Reform Cuts Marijuana Possession Arrests 86% in 2011, Upends California Drug Policing: Dec 10, 2012; Reform Cuts Marijuana Possession Arrests 86% in 2011, Upends California Drug Policing California Progress Report, December 10, 2012