Articles

Showing Faces, Hearing Voices, Tugging at Emotions

Televising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Winter 1998: Truth and Reconciliation Introduction

How Journalists Tell These Stories Depends on Who They Are and Where They Work

Inside the Juvenile Justice System

Lifting the Veil of Secrecy

Children’s Exposure to Violence

In therapy sessions, children use art to describe their lives. “Children in a Violent Society,” Edited by Joy D. Osofsky, The Guilford Press.Each year in our country at least three…

Editors’ Question: Do We Fail Our Children?

A street sign bearing his name stands near the pavement where he was slain, a monument to the seven-year-old boy who started a revolution in our newsroom.On the morning of…

Parents’ Warning: Remember the Children.

One of the first books I read when I was getting to know Chicago was Alex Kotlowitz’s “There Are No Children Here,” a vivid portrayal of the desperate lives of…

Riding the Crime Wave

Why Words We Use Matter So Much

Mapping Children’s Roadway to Violence: The Early Years

“I went to Vermont and showed Ernie this story, as it appeared in the magazine. I started from the back and showed him the last picture with his mom. She’s…

Interview with Photographer Donna Ferrato

“This is, by far, the most powerful picture I’ve ever taken because it shows exactly how a child feels when they see their mother being beaten. “The boy is saying…

The Superpredator Script

The funeral of a Boston youth. Photo by Stan Grossfeld.There is little doubt that television coverage contributes to the public hysteria about youth crime. In particular, local television news plays…