In the wake of the shooting at Columbine High School, the media dragged out its school-horror map: Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky., Jonesboro, Ark., Springfield, ...
Everybody in the country has now chimed in on what went wrong in Littleton. By the morning after, some 60,000 messages appeared on the AOL Internet chatroom labeled ...
In the burgeoning new industry that promises parents to straighten out their defiant teens, no programs are more controversial than those linked by several Utah-based ...
The teenagers in the youth group at the Trinity Christian Center here have survived Ground Zero of the Columbine High School massacre. Several of them knew Eric ...
Helping young people avoid or overcome emotional problems in the wake of violence, disaster, or the loss of a family member is one of the most important challenges ...
After finding that half of all bicyclists never or infrequently wear helmets, CPSC and McDonald's Corporation launched a national campaign to educate helmet-hesitant ...
In an unusual reward for 14 years of hard work and astute image-building nationally and on Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill ...
As a career 4-H youth development professional (now retired), I was upset to learn that the National 4-H Council would partner with Philip Morris to design, implement ...
The author discusses the historical and theoretical place of young people in nation states. The idea of children’s citizenship is discussed with reference to the ...
Juvenile Arson, 1997
Howard N. Snyder, Ph.D.
National Center for Juvenile Justice, Pittsburgh, PA
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Fact Sheet ...
Some years ago Mother Theresa was criticized for having accepted money from a reputed mafia kingpin. The money was given to help the indigent anywhere in the world. ...
Working in the juvenile justice field is like living in a walled city with a monster just outside the gates. The monster is the “get tough” movement and its effect on ...
John P. Moore and Craig P. Terrett
Institute for Intergovernmental Research, Tallahassee, FL.
Report summary available free from the Institute at (800) 446-0912, ...
Responsibility for prevention work often lands by default in the laps of classroom teachers, many of whom find teaching prevention curricula distasteful. Imagine your ...
American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees
1625 L St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
Free copy: call (202) 429-1155 or fax request to (202) 429-1084, or ...
If the White House was serious in its vow to get a “bang for the buck” in newly announced anti-drug efforts, it would abolish its own Office of National Drug Control ...
Last summer, America seemed to have found its super-predator prototypes.
The discovery began in Chicago with the killing of an 11-year-old girl, Ryan Harris. Found ...
