A record number of inmates – 346 people — died behind bars in Florida last year. Most were from natural causes, but a series of suspicious deaths have raised questions about safety in the prisons. Federal and state law enforcement...
Like many people I’ve read all about the ACE study. I took the test and know my score. Frankly, the news for those with an ACE score of 6 or more is terrifying. It’s early mortality of ON AVERAGE 19 years. You...
Domestic violence is never OK. Yet in 29 countries around the world, one-third or more of men say it can be acceptable for a husband to "beat his wife." Perhaps more surprising: In 19 countries, one-third or more of women agree that...
Last month, 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...
Women who have depression or anxiety during pregnancy or in the year after giving birth are not having their needs recognised and not getting the support they need as a result, according to research published by Centre for Mental Health and the...
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reports that following military parents' return from combat deployment, their children show increased visits for mental healthcare,...
The call comes in from a high-rise complex on Third Avenue in mid-city Los Angeles: A woman is again throwing items from her ninth floor apartment balcony. On this day, it’s a large picture frame, its glass now shattered in the...
Economic inequality across America’s large, coastal cities continues to deepen, according to a new study released this week by the Brookings Institution. The study, by Alan Berube and Natalie Holmes of Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy...
I couldn’t stand the stares. I could ignore everything else, but not the stares. We went to the zoo and the Jersey shore, we flew to Atlanta for a family reunion — me with Gran, her with my parents, a normal family. And I couldn’t...
A bill that would limit Washington public schools restraining or isolating students is working its way through the state legislature, making it at least the fourth state to move to limit restraints in recent months. Last year, an analysis of...
There are three ways to look at how the juvenile justice system is using modern practices to reduce youth crime and violence. One is what happens on the way to the detention center where a kid is held until trial – i.e., how the system decides...
J.G. is a lawyer in his early 30s. He’s a fast talker and has the lean, sinewy build of a distance runner. His choice of profession seems preordained, as he speaks in fully formed paragraphs, his thoughts organized by topic sentences....
Suicide rates in the U.S. have gone up considerably in recent years, claiming an average of 36,000 lives annually. Most people take their lives in or near home. But suicide on the job is also increasing and, according to federal researchers,...
As my children, and my friends’ children, are getting older, a question that comes up again and again from friends is this: Which would I rather my children use — alcohol or marijuana? The immediate answer, of course, is...
To keep people from getting into trouble with alcohol, it would help to know why they're at risk. Genes make some people more susceptible to dependence or addiction, while the surroundings exert a stronger pull on others. But it's been...