Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shootings and ot

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On juvenile delinquency in America

Youth violence has long been a contentious and perplexing issue in current debates on crime policy, not the least because of the sharp increase in violence amon