California

Youth

in

Transition

Mike Males, 2006   www.YouthFacts.org

(originally used in California Youth in Transition, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Contents (in Word format)

1. Growing up in a State of Extremes ..........  1 

2. Adolescent Psychology: Junk Science Run Wild ....... 45

3. America’s Hundred-Year War Against Precocity ........ 96

4. The Sixties: The New  Adolescent? ......................129

5. 1980s and Beoynd: Goths, Gangs...Millennials?   ..... 166

6. “Teenage Sex:” Could We Get It Any More Wrong? ......206 

7. Myths of Adolescence, Part I: Crime, Guns, and Violence ... 254

8. Myths of Adolescence, Part II: Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco ..... 311

9. The Law and Adolescents .... 357

10. Youth in Society ..... 392

Appendixes ...... 415

    A: Ethnography

    B. Proposition 21

    C. San Francisco juvenile justice