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Juvenile Crime: An Overview |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE |
| Author: Karl Zinsmeister |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 3,256 Words, 19,720 Characters |
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One of the deepest human impulses is the desire to shelter and protect the young from predation. We know that physical safety and psychological security during childhood are essential to the development of healthy personalities. Frights and hurts experienced early on can damage in ways that are very hard to heal. And when criminal habits take root in children themselves, they can be difficult to stamp out. While the subject of crime is a disturbing one under any circumstances, the involvement of children in violence and lawlessness is, for these reasons, particularly unnerving.
The first worry about crime touching children is over innocent victimization. Particularly - although not exclusively - in our inner cities, it is shocking how far we have strayed from the notion of child...
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...ions strategies for this hard core - including boot camps, work farms, separate schools, and military academies - deserve extended experimentation. But frequently the requisite step will simply be to incapacitate, for a long term, the relatively small number of marauders who are the source of most of our urban carnage - a lost generation who must not be allowed to infect a successor class. vbcrlf
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