Blog Dec 31, 2013
What about Men? A follow-up to Newtown Shootings
In my most recent blog I happen to mention in passing that most of these kinds of shootings are committed by men. In a recent article by Meghan Murphy expanded on this often neglected fact. The issue of guns and access to mental health care has most often been discussed, writes Murphy, but, she says, “no one is asking what is, for once, the single most important question: What about the men?” After listing some of the most well-known mass shootings dating back to 1984, she writes that “In…
Chino prison inmate population seeing a 40-percent decline Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, December 26, 2012
Blog Dec 27, 2012
A Partnership to Change Our Criminal Justice System
As 2012 draws to a close, now is a time for reflection on past achievements and future challenges. The holiday season and coming New Year represent an opportunity to jolt us from our everyday complacency. CJCJ is unique in that it joins practitioners and researchers, all working for one common purpose: a more humane justice system. Our hard work builds not just on the dedication of agency staff, interns, and volunteers, rather we rely on generous contributions from individuals such as…
Dec 21, 2012
SF juvenile probation chief explores arming officers
SF juvenile probation chief explores arming officers Bay Citizen, December 21, 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…
CJCJ’s Christa Collins discusses what trauma informed care is, and why it is so effective in serving justice-involved youth. ~ Christa Collins CJCJ Communications and Policy
CJCJ authors have published several provocative studies documenting that teenagers and young adults are no more prone to risk-taking and crime than older adults once the fact 15 – 24 year-olds are 2 – 3 times more likely to suffer the economic and environmental harms associated with poverty than middle-agers is taken into account. We find terms like “adolescent risk taking” and “youth violence” are misnomers; rather, there are generally elevated risks that accompany worsening socioeconomic…
(ISSN 1530 – 3012) From the editor The Criminal History of So-Called “Hard Core” Drinking Drivers Reintegrative Community Service Teams: Developing Key Practice Dimensions of the Civic Engagement Model of Offender Reentry Do Societal Reactions Lead to Increased Experiences of Shame and Strain for Registered Female Sex Offenders? From the editor By Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D. and Randall G. Sheldon, M.A., Ph.D. From the Editors Once again it is time for another issue of Justice…
Dec 19, 2012
Newtown massacre renews assault gun fight
Newtown massacre renews assault gun fight San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2012
The Leaders in Community Alternatives, Inc., is looking for an Assistant Program Director to operate the Community Assessment and Services Center (CASC) in partnership with the San Francisco Adult Probation Department (San Francisco, CA). The CASC “one stop” program will provide an array of services including comprehensive supervision, substance abuse education and treatment, personal development, education, parenting, vocational and employment services, and other services that…
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Blog Dec 18, 2012
Gun nuts run amok
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…