A few weeks ago, The Chronicle of Social Change began “Positive Youth Justice: Curbing Crime, Building Assets,” a series that imagines an entire continuum of juvenile justice services built on the positive youth development framework. We...
Entering the grounds of the Wyoming Girls’ School in Sheridan, Wyoming, there are no gates. No barbed wire. White-tailed deer roam the grounds. The only fences at this secure juvenile detention facility are meant to keep the horses from...
“The Hunting Ground,” a documentary shocker about rape on American college campuses, goes right for the gut. A blunt instrument of a movie, its power largely derives from the many young women and some men recounting on camera how...
In a Dallas Hilton conference room last summer, a few dozen state lawmakers from around the country gathered for a closed-door presentation about an all-American industry under threat. The pitch was part of an annual conference hosted by the...
Teenager Dwayne Powe Jr. got a suspension in eighth grade. He didn't get into a fight. He wasn't caught with drugs. He committed no crime. "I actually was asking for a pencil," Powe said. Powe said his class began an exercise and he asked to...
The Obama administration told Congress on Tuesday that it had no plans to help low- and moderate-income people if the Supreme Court ruled against the administration and cut off health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans. Sylvia...
To the Editor: I read “ The Modern Asylum ,” by Christine Montross (Op-Ed, Feb. 18), proposing “a new model of long-term psychiatric institutionalization,” with incredulity — both as one who was hospitalized in a...
I am reading Murray Stein's wonderful book, Minding the Self: Jungian Meditations on Contemporary Spirituality , after spending the weekend assisting a sensorimotor psychotherapy training. On first glance, spirituality and...
How can we use brain science to provide effective treatment that builds stronger brains- and have more fun while doing it? These ideas are based on the work of Dr. Bruce Perry www.childtrauma.org. Use rhythmic, repetitive, rewarding activities...
"I have something to give you," she said as she withdrew these rocks from her purse. "Remember when we did that activity with writing the negative things we believed about our self? These are from that activity; I saved them. I've...
Last year, Dave Maass, an investigative researcher for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, found a document on the website of the South Carolina Department of Corrections that listed nearly 400 inmates in the state’s prisons who had...
In two decades as a psychological expert witness for 75 murder cases, James Garbarino, MAT ’70, Ph.D. ’73, never had encountered a scarier defendant. The heavily shackled convict with bulging, tattooed arms was in prison for killing a...
There are many gauges of the depth and breadth of economic inequality, and they often measure what middle-income working people have today against what they had prior to 1980 – that time when homes were affordable, along with doctor...
After decades of building prisons and increasing the number of people behind bars, the pendulum of California’s criminal justice system has swung away from incarceration. Among the policies and laws that are changing the way offenders are...
Some recall getting burned. Others say they've been strangled or attacked by dogs. Many suffer from depression and anxiety. These are only a small sampling of what tens of millions modern slaves endure daily, researchers in London reported...