Mike A. Males (born 1950) is an American sociologist who is senior researcher for the

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the United States' reliance on incarceration. It was established in 1985 by Jerome G. Miller Jerome Gilbert Miller (December 8, 193 ...

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, and content director for YouthFacts.org, the online information service on youth issues. He worked for five years at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

, where he taught Sociology of Men and California Youth in Transition. Males wrote ''Scapegoat Generation,'' a book that analyzes statistics to dispel myths about

young people Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. You ...

in the 1990s.

Publications

*''The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents'' (1996) *''Framing Youth: 10 Myths About The Next Generation'' (Common Courage Press, 1999) *''Smoked: Why Joe Camel Is Still Smiling'' (Common Courage Press, 1999) *''Kids and Guns'' (Common Courage Press, 2001) *"The New Demons: Ordinary Teens" (''Los Angeles Times'', April, 2002) *"What Do Student Drug Use Surveys Really Mean?" (''Journal of School Health'', January 2005) *"Wrong Way for Teen Drivers" (''Los Angeles Times'', January, 2008) *''Teenage Sex and Pregnancy: Modern Myths, Unsexy Realities'' (Praeger, 2010)

References

External links

*
YouthFacts.org
– Mike Males directs this project.
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

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