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Youth Detention Center

I am working on Public Criminology Lead Section
 * Everything in this article is relevant, though the order of some of the subtopics could be switched around.
 * The information in this article is pretty up to date, the oldest reference is from 2006.
 * What could be added is maybe a section about how a detention centers have progressed from beginning to now
 * The article is neutral, it is just explaining what a detention center is
 * There are no viewpoints that are over represented
 * There are couple links that do not work
 * The facts are referenced with appropriate and reliable source, the sources do not seem biased and the author does not say whether they are or not

Summary of Plan
What we plan to do is first define what public criminology (PC) is. We then want to have a line briefly describing how PC effects other types of criminologies, especially during policy making to go along with the Needs sections. To go along with the "Pioneer" section we plan to address how PC came from Public sociology and briefly summarize the historical figures that attributed to PC. We also want to take the last sentence of the lead, condense it, and better word it. To go along with the "Contemporary examples" we will briefly speak about News making PC. Overall we want to briefly touch base on at least on perspective of each article and rewrite the lead section to make it easier for the average reader to understand.

"The idea behind public criminology is to spread knowledge of crime and research done by criminologists beyond the community of criminology to the general public. This term is used by Christober Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzen to call criminologists to focus on providing understandable information to the general public, as well as to help inform crime policy and law makers. The concept draws on Michael Burawoy's "public sociology" which grants the same concept but in reference to sociology."

"Uggen and Inderbitzin suggest such efforts have the potential to not only revive the discipline but reshape public debates, and policy, in matters that are simultaneously contentious and divorced from an empirical grounding. The response to their inspiring call has been generally positive, however several authors have voiced a sense of caution, whether it be out of a sense that the discipline itself has several issues that first must be addressed, a current lack of resources for the project, the indifference of policy makers to criminological insights, or a parallel indifference in academic criminology to policy-making issues."

Uggen and Inderbitzin suggest such efforts have the potential to not only revive the discipline but reshape public debates, and policy, in matters that are simultaneously contentious and divorced from an empirical grounding. Though the general response to public criminology (PC) have been positive with many scholars contributing to public criminology there have been criticisms along with it such as to how it should function along with things such as policy making. We also look at how should it function within or along with the media, Gregg Barak a criminologist speaks about his experience with how the media affected PC back during the O.J. Simpson trial. And how we can help make an impact in the public.