Mike A. Males
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Mike A. Males is an American sociologist who is senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco, and content director for the online information service on youth issues. He earlier taught for five years up to 2006 at the University of California, Santa Cruz
, where he taught "Sociology of Men" and "California Youth in Transition".
Males is best known for his book Scapegoat Generation, which analyzes statistics to dispel many popular myths about youth
in the 1990s. He is popular among youth empowerment
organizations and many academics, educators and young people.
Males is the author of Kids and Guns (Common Courage Press, 2001), The Scapegoat Generation: America's War On Adolescents (1996), Framing Youth: 10 Myths About The Next Generation (Common Courage Press, 1999) and Smoked: Why Joe Camel Is Still Smiling (Common Courage Press, 1999).
Other publications include "What Do Student Drug Use Surveys Really Mean?" (Journal of School Health, January 2005), "The New Demons: Ordinary Teens" (Los Angeles Times, April, 2002) and "Wrong Way for Teen Drivers" (Los Angeles Times, January, 2008).
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
, where he taught "Sociology of Men" and "California Youth in Transition".
Males is best known for his book Scapegoat Generation, which analyzes statistics to dispel many popular myths about youth
Youth
Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood . Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals could exist at all ages.-Usage:Around the world, the terms "youth",...
in the 1990s. He is popular among youth empowerment
Youth empowerment
Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults....
organizations and many academics, educators and young people.
Males is the author of Kids and Guns (Common Courage Press, 2001), The Scapegoat Generation: America's War On Adolescents (1996), Framing Youth: 10 Myths About The Next Generation (Common Courage Press, 1999) and Smoked: Why Joe Camel Is Still Smiling (Common Courage Press, 1999).
Other publications include "What Do Student Drug Use Surveys Really Mean?" (Journal of School Health, January 2005), "The New Demons: Ordinary Teens" (Los Angeles Times, April, 2002) and "Wrong Way for Teen Drivers" (Los Angeles Times, January, 2008).