Mike Males, author of four books on American youth (including Framing Youth: Ten Myths about the Next Generation, 1999, and The Scapegoat Generation: America’s War on Adolescents, 1996, both Common Courage Press), currently serves as senior research for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, a San Francisco advocacy group. He taught sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for five years, including three courses he designed (California Youth in Transition, Youth and Crime, and Sociology of Men), and Sociology of Law, Contemporary American Society, Drugs and Society, and Race and Criminal Justice. Prior to returning to graduate school at UC Irvine to obtain a Ph.D. in social ecology in 1999, he worked for ten years in youth programs, including the Youth Conservation Corps in Olympic, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks and other community and wilderness programs; was a newspaper reporter covering politics, government, and crime, for the Bozeman (Montana) Daily Chronicle; and lobbied environmental issues for the Montana Environmental Information Center. He has authored dozens of unconventional articles on youth issues such as crime, drug abuse, pregnancy, and economics, with recent articles published in the Crime & Public Policy, Scribner's Encyclopedia on Violence in America, The Lancet, American Journal of Public Health, and Journal of School Health, and the popular press, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post.

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