Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Youth Prisons Study Report is Denounced

“We had yet another example of infighting undermining what was supposed to be an objective, open-minded look at the problem in juvenile corrections,” said Mr. Butts, a researcher at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Youth Policy. “It’s been the most contentious process we’ve ever engaged in in this kind of study.” Continue reading Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Youth Prisons Study Report is Denounced

News-Journal – Researcher Believes Teens Placed in Psychiatric Hospitals Too Often

“I think that if the true figures were known, if we had them, they would be much higher,” he said. Schwartz and a graduate student Jeffrey Butts studied 20,000 patient records for youngsters aged 6 to 17 who were admitted to psychiatric wards of general hospitals in 1987. Continue reading News-Journal – Researcher Believes Teens Placed in Psychiatric Hospitals Too Often