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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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Criminalizing Youth
Criminalizing Youth
The media's portrayal of teens within the last ten years has been one of the "troubled", over-sexed, under-supervised, violent video game addicted little robots who do whatever musicians (be it rock or rap) tell them to. And the solution is to install Orwellian surveillance systems, metal detectors and a host of other privacy invading measures. Of course, nothing (both the "problems" and the so-called "solutions") could be further from the truth...
The media's portrayal of teens within the last ten years has been one of the "troubled", over-sexed, under-supervised, violent video game addicted little robots who do whatever musicians (be it rock or rap) tell them to. And the solution is to install Orwellian surveillance systems, metal detectors and a host of other privacy invading measures. Of course, nothing (both the "problems" and the so-called "solutions") could be further from the truth...
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