Juvenile Crime

'Go-Kart Bandit': Teen Allegedly Burglarizes Nearly 100 Homes

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.07.2012

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A 14-year-old Tennessee boy was arrested Friday in connection with about 100 break-ins in the Nashville area -- armed with a knife, some gloves and a ...

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14-year-old Who Shot Mother To Be Tried As Adult

AP | Posted 03.09.2012

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DETROIT -- A 14-year-old Detroit boy will stand trial as an adult in the shooting death of his 36-year-old mother. A 36th District Court judge determ...

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11-Year-Old Arsonist Tries To Burn Down Kohl's -- Twice

Posted 03.21.2012

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This season's Jennifer Lopez Collection must really be terrible: an 11-year-old South Florida boy has been charged with setting fire inside a Kohl's d...

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10-Year-Old Boys Charged With Sexual Assault On School Bus, Could Get 40 Years

AP | By JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 01.10.2012

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HOUSTON -- Houston police say two 10-year-old boys have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus. The boys were arrest...

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School Police Have Uncertain Impact On Student Arrests, Crime Prevention

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 12.21.2011

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A headline-generating study, published in the journal Pediatrics this week, suggests that approximately one in three Americans is arrested before age ...

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Boy To Officer He Stabbed: 'You Are A Hero Even To Me'

Posted 12.04.2011

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Back in April, Florida middle school student Kenny Stoltman brought 11 bottles of gasoline and a knife to school, which he used to repeatedly stab a r...

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The Record Behind Teen In High School Bombing Plot

AP | MITCH STACY and TAMARA LUSH | Posted 10.18.2011

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TAMPA, Fla. — A year and a half before he was accused of plotting to bomb his high school, a shirtless and shoeless Jared Cano confronted police...

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Texas Considers Law Giving Teachers Criminal Histories Of Their Students

AP | DANNY ROBBINS | Posted 08.13.2011

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DALLAS — Texas is close to enacting a law that would provide teachers with detailed information about the criminal histories of their students, ...

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Police: 5-Year-Old Girl Confessed To Drowning Toddler In Bathtub Because He 'Cried Too Much'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 08.10.2011

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Police in Kansas City are investigating the recent death of an 18-month-old toddler allegedly killed by his five-year-old cousin because he would not ...

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Abolishing Juvenile Life Without Parole in California

Patricia Foulkrod | Posted 08.01.2011

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Over 2,500 prisoners are serving juvenile life without parole in America. They were convicted at age 15, 16, 17, 18 -- and they will die in prison regardless of how well they live their lives while incarcerated.

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Mentor Helps Juvenile Inmate Find Path To College

TakePart | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Starcia is going to be an inspiration to a lot of people," Cindy Williams says of her mentee. Starcia Ague is a recent college graduate working with...

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Los Angeles' Juvenile Justice Fiasco

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 05.25.2011

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We can go a long way toward helping California's budget crisis simply by reforming Los Angeles County's antiquated juvenile justice system. Californ...

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Backwards Priorities

Zachary Rowe | Posted 06.27.2011

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As a teacher it's a frustrating and backwards practice. The students most in need of a quality education are pulled from my classroom, and told collecting litter is more important than time in school.

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A Novel Approach to Stem Gang Recruitment of Minors

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shouldn't there be a law that adds an automatic and very significant enhancement to the sentence of any adult who participates in a crime that involves a youth as a co-conspirator?

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Kids in Detention: 4; State Employees to Guard Them: 129

Elizabeth Dwoskin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why do four troubled kids need so many state employees to watch over them? Naturally, it's a union issue.

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Supreme Court Bans Life Sentences Without Parole For Some Teen Criminals

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven't killed anyone. B...

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SURVEY: Sex Abuse High At Some Juvenile Detention Centers Around Nation, Including Two In NJ And Penn

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and DENA POTTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Nearly one out of every three youths at 13 juvenile detention facilities have reported some type of sexual victimization, according...

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Crisis In New York's Juvenile Prison System

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York's system of juvenile prisons is broken, with young people battling mental illness or addiction held alongside violent offenders in abysmal fa...

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Prison Prevention for Kids: A Little Money Well Spent

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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Intervention at the right age can turn a kid away from gangs, crime, and drugs for good whereas doling out stiff penalties only seems to result in more people going to prison.

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Historically, Eight-Year-Old Killers Have Been Mythical

Rob Warden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juvenile Crime, Elijah Henderson, Romarr Gipson, False Confessions, Melvin Dean Nimer, Ryan Harris, 8 Year Old Kills Father, Politics News

The confession of an eight-year-old boy to the murder of his father and another man last week in St. Johns, Arizona, is shocking. It also may be false.

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Former San Quentin Warden Supports Prop. 5: Responsible Plan to Reduce Prison Overcrowding

Jeanne Woodford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prop. 5 starts with youth. It launches the state's first system offering drug treatment for at-risk youth. Stop addiction early, and we reduce crime.

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Does Britain Suffer From a "Stabbing Culture"? Let's Cut Through The Nonsense.

Alan Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Britain is currently consumed with an extremely unhealthy obsession with knife crime. While many of the teens readily confess to 'not really knowing what is going on', so too do the police.

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Reforming Juvenile Injustice

Carol Chodroff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our nation's juvenile justice policies are replete with contradictions between practices proven to prevent crime, and punitive laws politicians promote to get elected.

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