criminalizing youth

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 19 19:53:05 PDT 1999


Michael Pollak wrote:


>"Curfews sound tough and win votes and please anxious adults. But do they
>work? Vincent Schiaradli of the Centre on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
>(CJCJ), a non-profit group in Washington, points out an irony that
>suggests otherwise. The crime that children are most often arrested for
>in America, he notes, is curfew violation. In 1996, police reported some
>140,000 cases of juvenile curfew arrests, more than double the figure in
>1994."

If only they'd been aborted, they wouldn't be a problem!

Doug



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