Monterey Herald reports on John A. Calhoun speech. By DENNIS TAYLOR Herald Salinas Bureau Article The path to peace on the streets of Salinas and elsewhere where gang violence is a problem begins with a community effort to instill a sense of hope in young people. That’s the message delivered Thursday by author and crime-prevention […]
Hey, Loved One
Having failed retirement totally, I found myself in a car in Oakland, California with Billy Dupes and Jay Jimenez, two ex-cons who had turned their lives around, committing themselves to work day and night to keep youth from taking the same destructive paths they had once taken. “Streetworkers” the City of Oakland calls them. In […]
Proven Pathways to Violence Prevention
Drawing on forty years of distinguished service in delinquency prevention, John Calhoun, founder of the National Crime Prevention Council, lays out the essential ingredients for preventing violence. These include strategies for connecting with alienated youth, building community norms of caring, reducing access of weapons of violence, and claiming unclaimed kids. The Department of Youth Services […]
Can the Massachusetts Juvenile System Survive the Eighties?
The authors, a former Commissioner and a former Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, offer the thesis that the serious offender represents the ultimate test in any juvenile correctional system. They portray how the Massachusetts community-based correctional system has, in its first decade, met that test, and indicate what further work must […]
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