Mike A. Males

Mike A. Males
Born	1950
Occupation	Author, University Professor
Nationality	American
Genre	Nonfiction
Subject	Sociology, Youth studies
Website
http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales/

Mike A. Males (born 1950) is an American sociologist who is senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco, and content director for the online information service on youth issues, YouthFacts [http:\\www.YouthFacts.org]. He has worked as a lobbyist for environmental issues for the Montana Environmental Information Center, authored Montana's Nuclear Facility Siting Act (passed by voters in November 1978), was a journalist for 14 years, and worked in youth programs in wilderness and community settings for 15 years. After receiving his PhD in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine, he taught sociology for five years from 2001 to 2006 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including "Sociology of Men" and "California Youth in Transition". He served as president of Montana's Children's Trust Fund Board and as an advisor for the California Wellness Foundation's Teen Pregnancy Advisory Initiative. He currently lives in Oklahoma City.

Males is best known for his book Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents (Common Courage Press, 1996), which analyzes statistics to dispel many popular myths about youth in the 1990s. His most recent book is Teenage Sex and Pregnancy: Modern Myths, Unsexy Realities (Praeger, 2010). Males also is the author of Kids and Guns (Common Courage Press, 2001), Framing Youth: 10 Myths About The Next Generation (Common Courage Press, 1999) and Smoked: Why Joe Camel Is Still Smiling (Common Courage Press, 2000). He is popular among youth empowerment organizations and many academics, educators and young people.

Other publications include the lead article in the Journal of Adolescent Research special issue (January 2010) on the Adolescent Brain, numerous articles on youth issues for The Lancet, keynote lecture for the Konopka Institute, University of Minnesota, annual lectureship ("The Panic Over Girls," February 11, 1999), the article on school violence for Scribner's Violence in America: An Encyclopedia (Charles Scribner & Sons, 1999), "What Do Student Drug Use Surveys Really Mean?" (Journal of School Health, January 2005), "The New Demons: Ordinary Teens" (Los Angeles Times, April, 2002) and "Wrong Way for Teen Drivers" (Los Angeles Times, January, 2008). He regularly contributes commentary on youth issues to National Public Radio, the New York Times (most recent, "Behaving Like Children," January 28, 2011), and other national news media (see Politifacts, June 13, 2011), as well as a blog on youth and generational issues on ''Firedoglake''.

External links

• Personal website
• YouthFacts.org - YouthFacts.org, Mike Males directs this project.
• May 2004 National Youth Rights Association (NYRA), Interview with Mike Males
• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
• Latest book: Teenage Sex and Pregnancy: Modern Myths, Unsexy Realities
• Journal of School Health, "What do student drug use surveys really mean?"
• Los Angeles Times, "The New Demons: Ordinary Teens"

• Journal of Adolescent Research, Special Issue on the Adolescent Brain
• The Lancet, American teens from The Waltons to The Simpsons
• Konopka Institute, The panic over girls
• Violence in America: An Encyclopedia
• New York Times op-ed on press distortions about teens
• Politifacts, Limited studies say teen curfews ineffective
• Firedoglake blog on youth and generational political issues