[Publib] Ugly battle has librarians in Oak Brook turning

[Sharon Foster]

I think I'd want to know relative proportions, to begin with. Given a
general population with equal numbers of female teens and male teens,
what percentage of each are incarcerated? Then I'd want to know what
external circumstances landed each kid in a residential program. I'm
pretty sure that I'd be a vile person (more than I already am) if I
had been thrown out onto the streets at a young age, for example.

Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
Technology Librarian
http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/
"Have you tried switching it off and on again?"




On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Paula Laurita
<plaurita at athenslimestone.lib.al.us> wrote:
> During my grad school special ed class we took a field trip to a residential
> program for troubled teens.  The professor refused to take us to see the
> girls school.  She informed us that every time she had tried that the grad
> students got jumped, spat on, or other “vile” things happened.  She never
> had that happen at the boys school.
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> Vileness knows no age or gender.
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> Paula S.W. Laurita, MLIS
> Coordinator of Public Services
> Athens-Limestone Public Library
> Athens, AL 35611
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> plaurita at athenslimestone.lib.al.us
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> We have found that a library is not an end in itself, but a means to many
> ends.
> Charles E. Rush, 1939
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> Would anybody care to venture the proportion of male to female felons?   I
> recall my old probation caseload was about 95% male.
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> By the way, the strongest traits associated with crime are:  Male status,
> followed by youth.  No other factor is nearly as good a determinant.  Cops
> have been profiling for years--they just look for young men.  In answer to
> the comment, off the top of my head, I can think of several million vile
> men.  The women that come to mind are all relations, and I may be
> prejudiced.
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> M. M.
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