Sometimes it is easy to deduce what led someone to commit a crime. In other cases, the reasons are much less clear. Did something happen earlier in these people’s lives that we simply don’t know about, or are their brains hardwired for criminal activity?
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Kids will be kids. We’ve been saying it for years, sometimes as an explanation for actions that defy adult understanding, occasionally to dismiss or downplay the need for personal accountability, and to convince ourselves that the sometimes-alarming behavior we witness in the young people around us is “normal.”
It’s a scene guaranteed to set hearts racing, hands trembling, and blood pressure soaring—a worst-nightmare-come-true setting that has already lasted several hours too many.
Taking center stage at The Chicago School’s 2011 Commencement Ceremony, the Honorable Patrick J. Kennedy encouraged graduates to take active roles in “a new civil rights movement” to ensure mental health care for every American citizen.
Typically, DCFS requires that families remanded to its supervision complete parenting training before being reunited with their children. In Chicago, such parents are often referred to Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a program run by The Chicago School Forensic Center.
The latest research from Chicago School faculty – from an effective literacy intervention to an analysis of the portrayal of a serial killer in “Psycho.”
The changing world we live in today requires not only new skills, but a new way of thinking. A struggling economy and increased global competition are just some of the factors accelerating the need for a more innovative, interdisciplinary approach to addressing economic, social, political, and personal challenges.
Dr. Jill Biden, second lady of the United States, visited The Chicago School’s Chicago Campus June 16, meeting with representatives of the Illinois National Guard, The Chicago School, and the community to discuss the emotional and psychological impact that military deployment has on armed services personnel and their families.
To his parish in the Hispanic Chicago neighborhood of West Humboldt Park, he is known as Father Tom. But to patients at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where he works with cancer and AIDS patients as coordinator of the Supportive Care Program, he goes by Doctor Tom.
The different monikers underscore the dual roles that the Rev. Dr. Thomas N. Pelton balances as a priest and psychologist.
Recidivism rates have remained steady, despite increases in corrections spending. We gathered four Chicago School faculty to discuss issues around recidivism, from why it happens to the role of our criminal justice system to what kinds of treatment work (and what don’t).
