Volume 4, Issue 1: January - February, 2003

Contents Cover Story     Doctored Documents Articles     Perspective     Sue’s Review     Poem     Toon Features     Buzz     News Links     Redirect

Redirect Mike Males is, as always, on the job, fighting the mistaken perception that young people are responsible for most crime. His two recent editorials for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle can be viewed at <http://www.cjcj.org/press/youth_menace.html> and <http://www.cjcj.org/press/oakland_murders.html>. In the latest issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, “Scared Crooked” reports on new findings that scaring “at-risk” kids with prison visits makes them more likely to end up in trouble or in jail; the article appears at <http://www.health.harvard.edu/article.cfm?id=134>. Along the same lines: “Trick or Treatment,” a January 3, 2003 editorial in MSN’s Slate magazine, contends that, by lumping all drug users together and labelling them all equally dysfunctional, drug treatment programs for teens often turn first-time experimenters or infrequent users into hard-core abusers; see <http://slate.msn.com/id/2076329/>.