Hello,
   Are you a talk show host, or producer, who is looking for a 
controversial guest for your show?  If your show tends to lean 
toward an "information" format, you've come to the right place 
and this page is intended to assist you in: deciding if you'd 
like to have me on as a guest, planning the interview, and in 
promoting the show in such a way as to best attract its target 
audience.

   My name is Kathy L. Renbarger, the author of the 1996 book 
So you're FED UP with the "criminal justice" system too, huh? 
and the founder of Citizens For Effective Justice.  My phone 
number is (405) 722-3633 and my e-mail address is fedup@flash.net

   Originally, I was only doing interviews about my book (So, 
you're FED UP with the criminal justice system too, huh?) and 
this page was reflective of that emphasis; but, over time, this 
focus has shifted toward our assisting people to avoid prison 
through voluntary corporal sentences (waiver cases) and our 
group's efforts toward the enactment of corporal alternative 
sentencing (C.A.S.) laws.  Due to this change in focus, I have 
split this page into two sections: one for book related and 
another for waiver case and C.A.S. related interviews.  The 
information below is relevant to either type of interview; and, 
links to the pages for the book and C.A.S. specific pages are 
provided here:
C.A.S. RELATED INTERVIEWS
BOOK RELATED INTERVIEWS

SHOW PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION:

     To avoid pronlems, please read the following before deciding
how to promo me and either my book or corporal alternative sentencing:

     My book, and C.A.S. programs presents a viable way to reduce crime 
and prison overcrowding and, even though corporal sentencing is a part 
of the plan, it is only one element in a larger system.  Among other 
things, I place a stong emphasis on the need for rehabilitation programs, 
especially in the areas of substance abuse, literacy, and job skills 
training.  The use of corporal punishment is the means to an end, 
rather than an end in and to itself.  It's just the only viable way 
to resolve the problem of punishment/ accountability and rehabilitation 
being mutually exclusive and to give alternative sentencing the "teeth" 
it needs to make rehabilitative programs "intresting" to the criminal 
(who otherwise, for the most part, are perfectly content to remaim a 
criminal...) 
      If the show has been promoed incorrectly, the real battle is 
already lost before the show ever begins, because the wrong audience 
tunes in and the right one has already found an interesting T.V.
show to watch.  I can't blame them, either -- I would, too!...  
I prefer to target the people who are really concerned about the 
problems of crime, prison overcrowding, and the rehabilitation of 
criminals to be listening --  as opposed to the sort of person who 
would tune in because they think it's a show is about flogging people.   
I'm rather dumbfounded by the concept of anyone finding the infliction 
of pain on anyone or anything "entertaining."   I know those people are 
out there; but, they aren't people which I choose to associate myself 
with and certainly aren't the "market" which I'm going after.   This 
seems to confuse some hosts because many of them tend to jump to the 
assumption that I must be some kind of s and m weirdo, or something, 
to even suggest using corporal punishments on criminals.  Anything 
but!  (Actually, I can't think of much which would be a bigger "turn 
off" for me, especially after having seen more of this type of 
sentence carried out than I really care to remember...)  It's just 
that I'm pragmatic enough to place more emphasis on long-term 
effects, rather than short-term -- I've known enough crime victims 
to be very aware of the pain which victims go through and enough 
criminals to know that 1) their lives aren't so great, either, 2) that 
many of them could have had much better lives, if there had been a 
way of really getting their attention early, and 3) many of the things 
which happen to them when they finally find themselves in prison.
Because of these things, I'm able to see that the system I propose 
would result in a "net loss" in the misery of people (victims, 
potential criminals, and criminals who can be salvaged) and would, 
therefore, be worth the temporary pain which (under this system) 
would be inflicted. 

     I prefer promos of the following nature:

1)  Are YOU FED UP with crime and prison overcrowding?  Do you think 
there is no solution?  This guest says there IS... (And it would even 
SAVE money!)  You'll have to tune in to find out what it is...

2)  Are you tired of the rehabilitation of criminals and the punishment 
of criminals being treated as mutually exclusive concepts?  So was 
Kathy Renbarger, author of So, you're FED UP with the "criminal 
justice" system too, huh? -- So, she's put together a "fix" for it. 
Catch the show to find out how she does it...

3)  Our state is going crazy trying to find bed space for all of 
our prison inmates.  Are you ready for a solution?  Citizens For 
Effective Justice is working toward a solution which would cost 
us less and result in less crime.

4)  If it was up to YOU to find a way to reduce crime and prison 
overcrowding (at the same time...), how would YOU do it?  Tune in 
_____, to find out how...

5)  Would you like to have safer streets, without the expense of 
more prisons?  Listen _________, to find out how...

etc.


PLEASE!!!  REFRAIN FROM:

1) Sound effects... (such as the cracking of whips, screaming sounds, 
and the like...)

2) Promoing the show as being about specificly corporal punishment 
related (it's FAR more than that.)

(I've actually had both of these happen!. And on a national market 
show, at that...)