Juvenile Crime

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An examination of juvenile crime in the United States, focusing on schoolyard shootings. This paper argues that both young offenders and their parents should be held more accountable and receive harsher sentences than they do now, although every attempt should be made to rehabilitate the youngest offenders (those under the age of 12).

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"The issue of youth violence is one very much in the news since the Columbine High School shootings and the other incidents of schoolyard violence that have occurred with grisly regularity over the last several years. But while this such shooting sprees are perhaps the most striking example of people under the age of 18 intentionally committing violent acts against other people, Columbine and other school shootings are in fact only a very small element of the overall picture of juvenile violence. Indeed, both these school shootings and other, more common acts violence by young people can be seen as merely the natural development of other kinds of less lethal juvenile violence extending back as far as history is recorded."

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