Dick Mendel

Posts By Dick Mendel

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  More is Better

    What’s better than a theoretically sound, research-tested, carefully implemented prevention program to reduce risky adolescent behaviors? An integrated mix of several...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Just Say Maybe to Abstinence ED

    Like the “just say no” anti-drug advertisements that first lady Nancy Reagan made famous a generation ago, abstinence-only sex education programs...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Targeting All Parents

    Nearly 15 years ago, first lady Hillary Clinton popularized the old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”...

• News

  In Juvenile Justice Care, Boys Get Worse

    Is it time for the United States to haul in its law-and-order approach to adolescent misbehavior? Time for principals to stop...

• News

  Detecting Danger: Can We do Better?

  For child welfare and juvenile justice workers, it can literally be a matter of life and death: predicting which new cases are...

• News

  Attracting Teens

    *Editor’s Note: The last name of the person identified in this story as "Albert K." was printed in full in the...

• ► Reports

  Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice

  American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) Following up on AYPF’s June 2000 report, “Less Hype, More Help: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works –...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Combating Delinquency: No Place Like Home

  When it comes to combating delinquency, there’s no place like home. That’s what nine months investigating America’s juvenile crime problem for the...