RECOGNIZE THE TRAPS DESIGNED TO
SNARE THE UNSUSPECTING YOUTH INTO CRIME

It’s impossible to ignore the increase in troubled behavior among our nation’s youth. Theft, armed robbery, gang warfare and even school shootings have permeated American society, and young people are paying the price with incarceration.

In Reclaiming Our Children: Exposing The Nets That Snare Them, author Robby Dixon’s extensive research dissects the societal reasons for this distressing behavior, and he provides viable, preventative methods to empower parents, children and young adults to avoid the traps that often lead to crime.

Through a discussion of the impact of societal influences on the thought process, Dixon presents the path to divergent behavior as the result of the loss of control over one's own thought process. This path is often littered with avoidable lures that influence and provoke an otherwise lawful individual to fall victim to divergent behavior by influencing how they think. Dixon argues that not only is this behavior preventable, but through the power of changing what our children value (from the greatest to the least), we are able to re-orientate how they think and ultimately influence more positive actions and deeds based on helping them create a newfound value system. Dixon further states that through this process even the recidivism rate also may be decreased.

Reclaiming Our Children offers techniques for recognizing the negative lures set to capture the innocent, and for teaching parents and children how to avoid them. Insightful and effective, Dixon educates and informs, leaving the reader with not only a set of tools to keep young people on the right track, but with a sense of hope that they will stay there. According to Dixon "if we can change what our chidren value we are able to influence how they think and through this ultimately we redirect their behavior in more positive directions".

Dixon addresses CNN News

Taking Aim: Youth Violence