Tuesday, November 13, 2007

THE CRIMINALIZATION OF YOUTH

THE CRIMINALIZATION OF YOUTH

A lot of talk is being heard about the criminalization of our youth-particularly in the inner cities of this country, and our city has experienced some very public examples in the past few years. For instance, the former District Attorney Ira Reiner labelled every other black male teenager in Los Angeles a gang member because of so-called gang sweeps and documentation that called every young person in a target area a gang member, regardless of the actual life of the child....

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