Major influences on my writing are social and national events.  Kids killing kids led to my wanting to do research inside the state youth prisons and interview kids who had killed other kids.  That's how I happened to coin the word "adolescentcide" (kids killing kids). My interviews became my research project for my doctoral studies. When my research was all over and I had graduated, the Columbine tragedy occurred shortly thereafter. I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the first commemoration ceremony to honor the memories of the slain Columbine High School victims.  That same year, my nonfiction book, "Jack and Jill, Why They Kill," based on my four-year in-person/in-prison research on kids who killed, was published. The book gave me a huge media profile and led to many guest appearances as a juvenile and adolescent expert on television.  It also created an entirely new career for me, as an expert witness in criminal and civil courts.

The Phi Delta Kappa "Best Dissertation of the Year Award," Mt. Baldy Chapter, for doctoral research.

The California State Legislature's "Certification of Recognition."

I am gradually turning true events in my professional files into books and movie scripts. GANGrene: Made in America is a book-in-progress about the national cancer of criminal youth gangs: domestic terrorism.

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