Crime | Tough Punishments Are Necessary to Prevent Juvenile Crime

Rarely do you hear the phrase “juvenile delinquency”—a term prevalent decades ago that signified worrisome but not cataclysmic behavior. As everyounger predators not only violate personal safety and property rights and disregard moral standards, however, “delinquency” seems a quaint label.

An Emerging Consensus to Get Tough on Violent Juveniles
Homicide arrests among 14- to 17-year-olds have tripled during the last decade, for grotesque example, and that age group will expand by 20 percent during the next decade. There appears to be a fitful consensus...

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