September 7, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
Violent Kids: Can We Change the Trend?, by Michael deCourcy Hinds, presents options for reducing juvenile violence in the United States. Mr. Hinds, executive editor at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan policy organization in New York, examines three options for confronting the problem of violent youths, and weighs the arguments for and against each one. He summarizes the prevailing attitudes as follows: kids need a nonviolent popular culture, kids at risk of violence need more help, and kids need more moral discipline. Each is illustrated by a true account of a violent youngster. Mr. Hinds lists the measures that proponents of each attitude might support, provides a bibliography for further reading, and includes statistics from organizations such as the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency. This booklet is part of the National Issues Forums series prepared by Public Agenda and the Kettering Foundation, in Dayton, Ohio.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 4050 Westmark Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52002; (800) 228-0810; 28 pages; $3.60.
