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  "Scared Straight" and other juvenile awareness programs for preventing juvenile delinquency   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Programs like 'Scared Straight' involve organised visits to prison facilities by juvenile delinquents or children at risk for becoming delinquent.
'Scared Straight' and other programmes involve organised visits to prison by juvenile delinquents or children at risk for criminal behavior.
We conclude that programmes like 'Scared Straight' are likely to have a harmful effect and increase delinquency relative to doing nothing at all to the same youths.
www.cochrane.org /reviews/en/ab002796.html   (557 words)

  
  Scared Straight   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Yet, the Straight model of drug treatment is thriving, with the trend toward "boot camp" style rehab centers growing more and more en vogue and Straight's founders, high-powered Republican boosters Mel and Betty Sembler, wielding enormous influence over U.S. drug policy.
Straight was spun off of a rehab program called The Seed based on the "synanon" method of treatment.
Straight chapters across the country began to shut down, culminating with the last branch in Atlanta closing in 1993.
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 Scared Straight! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The subject of the documentary was a group of cocky teenaged juvenile delinquents and the attempts to make them end their criminal ways by introducing them to actual convicts.
Filmed at Rahway State Prison, a group of inmates known as the "Lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify the young hoodlums, and attempt to "scare them straight" (hence the film's title) by showing an ugly, harsh presentation of the realities of prison life.
The last sequel, hosted by Danny Glover, showed that the majority of the teens in the original program were, in fact, "scared straight" and went on to lead happy, productive lives.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scared_Straight!   (369 words)

  
 Crimson Celluloid :: Resident DVDvil :: Scared Straight
In 1978, I was 15 years old and still remember the night I first saw “Scared Straight.” I had a little bit of an idea of what it was going to be about, but had little concept of what I was about to watch.
For the uninitiated, “Scared Straight” was a documentary about what was, at the time, a very controversial method of deterring troubled kids from continuing their self-destructive ways.
The DVD release of “Scared Straight” also answered one of the main questions I’ve had in the years since I first watched it.
www.lethaldeath.com /Crimson/Archives/ResidentDVDvil/Archives/RD_ScaredStraight.php   (516 words)

  
 Scared Straight!
The aim of this presentation was to "scare" the teenagers into abandoning any and all criminal activity and to instead function in the "straight" world.
As the major authority in the critique of JAP and Scared Straight!, his research is cited in most of the scholarship relating to these two projects.
Indeed, recall that the Lifers present the horrors of prison life for the purpose of scaring kids into abandoning criminal activity -- the threat of prison is used to deter kids from pursuing a criminal path.
www.adhesivetheater.com /kalle/essay/ScaredStraight.html   (5415 words)

  
 Scared Straight
For the benefit of my younger readers -- those born after the second McKinley administration -- I should explain that a "straight razor" is, essentially, a cross between a scalpel and a bayonet.
I have been using a straight razor for five days now, and I can confidently report that it is just like using a safety razor, except for two elemental differences: the element of fear and the element of pain.
A straight razor costs about $175, including the leather "strop," which is a tough, cowboy way of saying "strap." ("Strap" won't do.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2004/12/05/AR2005033003666.html   (813 words)

  
 Sheriff's Scared Straight Program
Parents of Scared Straight participants refer their child to the program and once accepted will sign necessary waivers.
The program does not consist of the hollering and screaming antics type program characterized by some Scared Straight Programs and boot camps but instead it gives the child the true picture of jail life by being locked up in jail for an extended period of time.
The Clayton County Sheriff's Office Scared Straight Program is designed for problematic juveniles between the ages of 12-16 years of age who are on the verge of falling to the opposite side of the law.
www.claytonsheriff.com /youth/scared_straight.htm   (650 words)

  
 Anything but Love: Scared Straight - TV.com
The episode title is a reference to the 1978 documentary, Scared Straight.
It attempted to have prison inmates talk to teenagers who were on a dangerous path and scare them into behaving.
Tell the world what you think of Scared Straight, write a review for this episode.
www.tv.com /anything-but-love/scared-straight/episode/168904/summary.html   (122 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Scared Straight!: DVD: Peter Falk,Arnold Shapiro   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scared Straight is an uncensored look at this session in the prison.
The inmates come in and they each take turns talking of their experiences, but rather than just a dry account of their prison time (and how they got there) this is highly emotional.
Scared Straight should be played on a wide screen and stereo sound in every high school.
www.amazon.com /Scared-Straight-Peter-Falk/dp/B00009Y3V5   (1629 words)

  
 Scared Straight: A Second Look?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This report calls into question the success claimed for the Rahway program and the logic behind "scaring kids straight?" Clearly, the "success rates" are particularly misleading because a large proportion of referrals to the program had never been in trouble with the law.
The program would probably scare few youngsters who themselves were incarcerated in training schools, where they had already been exposed routinely to the types of brutality described by the lifers.
Unfortunately, those youngsters who would be scared by the program are those who do not "need" it and therein lies the program's major flaw: It deters youngsters who don't need to be deterred, and cannot affect those who do.
www.ncianet.org /stories/scareds.html   (3818 words)

  
 Scared Straight   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I know the target was "troubled youths", but this program really scared the shit out of every single white kid in the United States.
I saw Scared Straight in class during high school, and my friends and I immediately went out and rented it to watch it again and again.
I saw this show on TV at around age 13, and it indeed, scared the bejeezus out of me. I honestly give it credit for keeping me off a life path of crime (which was a real option at that time).
www.jumptheshark.com /s/scaredstraight.htm   (889 words)

  
 Scared Straight
Scared Sober - The three-hour classes are held three times a week, with about 20 offenders per session.
Class ends with a speech by a surviving victim, such as Michele, who was disabled by a drunk driver in 1984...
Our Criminal Children - The review of research debunks traditional punitive attitudes to youth crime, saying: "Scared straight" programmes, such as hardened criminals being used to scare troubled teens, have a "very poor" track record...
flatrock.org.nz /topics/prisons/inmates_teach_mba_students_ethics.htm   (1730 words)

  
 Scared Straight! - Movie Review
It means you've got the crap scared out of you so badly you'll change your criminal (or other wrongdoing) ways.
The idea is to scare the pants off them so they'll stop sniffing glue, shoplifting, or whatever.
In the end it's hard to figure out exactly why these kids are scared straight except that these guys make for really menacing role models.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/scaredstraight   (270 words)

  
 Portsmouth Herald Accent: Scared straight - 'Do one thing every day that scares you'
After a scare at the bank that a store had overcharged me for a shirt, I decided it was high time to grow up, balance and use a checkbook.
I left her place, staring at my palm, thinking how scared I would be if I knew everyone’s future.
I just got scared of what she was going to say, or even if she was going to say anything at all.
www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/12192004/accent/54898.htm   (1958 words)

  
 AlterNet: The Way to Ex-Gay
He said he lied down on the pavement, sobbing and saying, "Jesus, either you take my homosexuality away from me or I'm going to take my life away from you." The conference, said Gary, was the happiest five days of his life, the first time he ever felt truly relaxed and at home.
Three times a year, they have what House Leader Howard Hervey calls "straight men interviews," in which heterosexual guys, often recruited from the church, come to the classes to answer questions about what it's like to be, well, straight.
With my straight girlfriends, I'm not necessarily completely physically turned on by them, but once I get to know them at a deeper level I become physically attracted to some of them.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=10149   (4303 words)

  
 ABC News: Father, Guards Face Charges in 'Scared Straight' Stunt
April 1, 2005 -- A Pennsylvania man allegedly wanted to scare his son out of taking up a dangerous lifestyle, but the father and five of his friends, who are guards at a juvenile detention center, could be the ones who end up doing jail time.
Allegheny County police issued an arrest warrant for Anthony Donald, 37, of Penn Hills, and the five guards from the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, on charges including false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, official oppression, simple assault and conspiracy.
Donald's son told police he was harassed for about an hour and physically assaulted after his father turned him over to the guards on Sunday for a "scared straight" attempt.
abcnews.go.com /US/story?id=632021&page=1   (394 words)

  
 Strange Reaction - Beautiful Music For Beautiful People   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Formed in 1983, Scared Straight was a pretty good Mystic Records hardcore band that released their “Born To Be Wild” EP in 1985.
Scared Straight and Ill Repute did a tour together in 1985 that basically ended in Pittsburgh where they got all of their gear stolen when they left their van and trailer parked overnight in one of the worst neighborhoods in town.
That Scared Straight LP just came out on CD coupled with “it came from slimey valley” compilation.
www.strangereaction.com /archives/2005/07/26/scared-straight   (1140 words)

  
 Essays.cc - Discussions On The Scared Straight Program
The recent media obsession with the scared straight program, juvenile boot camps and other scare tactics has lead to the question as to whether they actually are beneficial or not in treating adolescent criminal recidivism.
Alternative options to throwing these kids in juvenile detention centers is a rehabilitative boot camp where they have no control over even their own bodies or programs similar to scared straight where they see possible consequences to their actions.
Finckenauer J.O. Scared Straight and the Panacea Phenomenon.
www.essays.cc /free_essays/g2/mrh130.shtml   (1860 words)

  
 Scared Straight   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The criminals do their best to explain to the youths in no uncertain terms just how horrible life in prison will be for them.
A follow-up show, Scared Straight: 20 Years Later, found that 16 out of the 17 youths reformed and managed to stay out of prison.
The film was broadcast uncensored on television, the first instance in which profanity on television was intentionally not bleeped.
www.nndb.com /films/317/000069110   (117 words)

  
 City hopes gangs will be scared straight - The Boston Globe
For the first time since at least 2002, Boston police, probation officers, ministers, and social workers met yesterday with young gang members and other high-risk youth to try to scare them straight as part of Operation Ceasefire.
Today, Menino is set to announce what City Hall will bill as a new partnership between police and neighborhood leaders on quality-of-life issues, such as loud noise and late-night parties.
Community leaders at yesterday's meeting, which was closed to reporters, said the revival of Operation Ceasefire requires straight talk with some of the city's toughest teenagers.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/16/city_hopes_gangs_will_be_scared_straight   (655 words)

  
 Gay man beaten to be `scared straight'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
York said he wanted to ``scare'' the victim to ``make him straight and to get him to stop acting the way he was,'' the statement says.
Straight people need to learn to stop being so obsessed with sex and war (no, they aren't the same thing).
I could care less if gays or straights live next door as long as they care for their dogs and don't disturb my peace.
www.freenewmexican.com /news/47902.html   (6959 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Scared Straight! (1978)
In this 1978 documentary, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro spent a day at Rahway, and captured a visit by 17 teens who had been in trouble with the law for most of their young lives.
Shapiro's camera catches it all, as these once macho boys and girls are reduced nearly to tears as they get the kind of education that might save their lives.
Full of faded, smeary colors and heavy grain, it seems that the transfer itself is not to blame, and that it is undoubtedly the poor condition of the source material.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5080   (1025 words)

  
 DVD Talk Review: Scared Straight!
With the talk show jungle of the last decade the spectacle of convicts screaming in the faces of juvenile delinquents has become just one of the bizarre list of things that we can take for granted, along with skinny-obese couples, septugenerian strippers and KKK groupies.
Then, after a monologue of extreme power and horror for the kids, he turns away and mutters under his breath "It'll be much easier for me to show you than to tell you." It's as sinister as anything Saruman ever bellowed at the Frodo but infinitely more frightening.
The basic reasoning for staying on the straight and narrow isn't because crime is wrong but because prison sucks.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=7575   (771 words)

  
 Scared Poopless: The Straight Scoop on Dog Care: Rescue Pet Supply - Dog, Cat, Horse Products
Scared Poopless: The Straight Scoop on Dog Care is such a book.
Narrated by an opinionated four-pound dog named Chiclet, and spiced with anecdotes, fascinating trivia and 89 enchanting full color photos, Scared Poopless is serious dog care with a sense of humor.
Scared Poopless won the 2006 Ben Franklin Award for the Best Health Book of any kind and the 2006 USABookNews Award for Best Animal/Pet Health Book.
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 Scared Straight!
After the original film, there is an update produced ten years later, apprising us of the Kids’ progress.
After three hours of an appropriately horrifying view of prison life, all of the Kids are indeed scared and determined to change their ways.
But is this an understandable yet temporary reaction, or do the Kids follow through and change their lives in the long run?
www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/Q-T/scared_straight.html   (1018 words)

  
 Scared Straight! DVD
As a frequent visitor to the area in rural New York State where the Ward brothers live, I have a larger interest in the compelling story of...
Hosted by Peter Falk (Columbo), the Oscar® and Emmy® award-winning "Scared Straight!" recounts the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer.
I first saw scared straight while I was in prison in West Germany in 1979.
www.docurama.com /productdetail.html?productid=NV-NVG-9558   (517 words)

  
 Breaking Bonaduce or Scared Straight - Reality TV
As disco closed the 70’s, Breaking Bonaduce might be the end to Reality TV as we know it.
With his language, his disregard for those around him, his eagerness to admit his problems but refusal to deal with them on any terms other than his own, Danny Bonaduce is on a train to an early demiseĀ…and he wants all of us to watch him go.
For me, it was a reminder of the Scared Straight video from the 80s and I’ll pass on the cocktail and on Breaking Bonaduce.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art36738.asp   (573 words)

  
 Scared Straight! 20 Years Later DVD, VHS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rather, they were being sent to Rahway in an attempt to convince them to abandon crime and build a better future for themselves.
In a raw confrontation, a group of hardened convicts called \"The Lifers\" tried to literally scare the kids into going straight.
Using explicit language and \"in your face\" tactics, The Lifers spared their audience nothing while revealing what life behind bars is really like.
www.buyindies.com /listings/2/2/AIMS-2282.html   (395 words)

  
 Salon.com Business | "Scared Straight" for the business set   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"This is 'Scared Straight' for white-collar executives," convicted felon Mark Morze told the MBA students, referring to the 1972 documentary film in which juvenile delinquents are brought to a maximum-security prison to hear about the horrors of life behind bars.
Morze served eight years for stock fraud, bank fraud and income-tax evasion for his part in a swindle in which he and others, working out of suburban Los Angeles offices, bilked investors and others of $100 million in the 1980s.
I went to Brand Camp and all I got was this dumb snack-food epiphany We have seen the reality TV of the future, and it is 20 hipsters spending a loft weekend thinking about packaged goods.
archive.salon.com /business/feature/2000/10/11/prison/index.html   (634 words)

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