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There is surely some connection between the fact that parents spend 40% less time with their kids now than 30 years ago, and the violence that some of them commit. We are paying for our prosperity in ways difficult to quantify. Inner cities have actually learned better how to prevent violence at schools, if only out of fear. The Los Angeles school district hasn't had to deal with a serious shooting incident since 1984. In the entire city of San Francisco, which has half a dozen programs designed to identify students early who may be prone to violence, only...
Sometimes copycats are just looking for pointers on how to commit a crime effectively--so-called mode copying. In Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, robbers started breaking car windows with bricks and snatching handbags--a bluntly effective technique that was quickly picked up by imitators and came to be known as the "smash and grab." But copycat criminals are often lured by the sheer thrill of making headlines. They see America in a furor over Pepsi tampering or high school shootings, and regard it as a quick way to achieve significance. It is a power trip for the powerless...
These measures are the wrong way to approach preventing another tragedy like the one in Littleton. Juveniles are uniquely receptive to rehabilitation and should not be imprisoned with hardened criminals. Kids who commit heinous crimes must be punished, but they must also be allowed to have a future. The harsher sentencing of juveniles as adults is not a proven deterrent and puts impressionable youngsters in contact with those least likely to help them re-integrate into society...
...university agreed to study that and think about it but they wouldn't commit, so we decided to increase the pressure," says Andrew R. Cornell, a Michigan student. The Michigan antisweatshop group then organized a 350-person rally, followed by the sit-in the next week...
...presidential candidate. However handy her Harvard law degree, her serial Cabinet posts, her frequent-flyer miles as president of the American Red Cross, none of those can make up for the four campaigns she endured as the candidate's wife, in which the first commandment is "Thou shalt commit no news and give no offense." Those campaigns bequeathed her the high name recognition and favorable ratings that position her solidly in second place in polls of Republican presidential contenders. So what happens now, when she becomes the candidate, and she has to make news...