Jack Hustlar; 4/12/2001
Founder and CEO of the North American Youth Sport Institute
Jack Hustlar responds to a questionnaire talking about Sports and delinquency prevention. He talks about how the boys and girls who participate in sports learn positive characteristic traits. This includes better academic performances, fewer problems in school, and an upward social mobility orientation. Boys and Girls who participate in sports are less likely to be involved with certain social issues (teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, and school problems). When a child plays a sport, he or she is likely to develop some type of role model to help them become a better player. This may include a parent, teacher, coach, or professional athlete. Hustlar mentions how coaches and parents are interested in encouraging and pushing players to strive for the next level of play (high school, college, pro..). Young boys and girls can use sports as an activity to play after school, or a way to live their life and earn an education. During high school, I personally was faced with a situation that if it wasn't for sports I wouldn't be were I am now.
That's great Jim. I love how you verify that wisdom though your own personal experience. There's a nugget that you'll want to refine and include in your paper. One way to refine it is to analyze the sports setting for the ways it helped you. Are there elements of it, e.g., the structure, that could also be found in a successful juvenile program. Using your interviews and your own personal experience as a means of arguing in favor of a certain kind of juvenile detention program would be a terrific goal for you project!
ReplyDeleteLet me add to that. A research project that points to a certain of kind of juvenile detention program, certain kinds of reforms, etc. would put you in an excellent position to study it further in a criminal justice grad program, or to work for juvenile programs, detention centers, etc., in counseling, adminstration, etc. Those are the kind of places who'd want to hire someone who's done that kind of research.
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