We've been watching Scared Straight in my Criminology class the past two classes. The upshot is that deterrence is bad and yelling at kids doesn't really do much in the way of preventing crime, it's ineffective to have deterrence as a stand-alone crime prevention method. You need some sort of therapy combined with it.
Having lived in a family which has dealt with the repercussions of juvenile crime and substance abuse, I can only say: no, ya think? But maybe I'm just a smart ass like that.
I'm finding the class more difficult to go to--it's much more interesting than it was last semester, because the prof is engaging. But it's a double-edged sword. It's interesting, but it brings up everything I don't want to think about in regards to my family: boot camps and juvenile detention centres and recidivism and substance abuse and alcohol abuse and other things I really don't want to be thinking about in class. I just don't want them to come out and sometimes it just feels too close to the surface to push down. It worries me.
I found Lockpick Pornography online, and it turns out that the entirety of it has been posted since I last encountered it. I feel like destroying the hetero-normative paradigm (not really, actually, I just felt like saying that) and doing something meaningful with my time.
I do actually mean that bit about doing something meaningful with my time.
http://www.lockpickbook.net/lockpick_2nd_ed.pdf There is Lockpick Pornography in its entirety.
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