Juvenile Crime | Juveniles Are Becoming Ruthless

These are the reasons children are dying in America’s mean streets at the hands of other children: sneakers and lambskin coats, whispers and trivial insults over menacing looks, scuffles over pocket change and, of course, drug turf. In some cases, kids are slain just for “props” (as in “proper respect”)—to enhance the killer’s reputation and bragging rights. Not only are the reasons unfathomably trivial but the responses of the killers are chilling; a smirk, a shrug, a coldblooded comment. The killers are “the young and the rootless,” says James Alan Fox, dean of...

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