Word: crime
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...have never, in my experience, turned a responsible youngster into a criminal," says Stanton Samenow, author of Before It's Too Late: Why Some Kids Get into Trouble and What Parents Can Do About It. "But a youngster who is already inclined toward antisocial behavior hears of a particular crime, and it feeds an already fertile mind." Most children resist the worst temptations, he says. The trick is to recognize the ones who do not. "If you have a child who increasingly is lying instead of putting some value on the truth, a child who is becoming more ruthless...
...kids who never develop an internal brake on their own aggression, the pop-pop culture of weaponry makes a difference. "The violence in the media and the easy availability of guns are what's driving the slaughter of innocents," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco...
Given all that, the real wonder may be that schoolboy massacres are still an aberration. But like crime generally, juvenile violence involving guns has actually been in decline since 1994. A downturn in the ultraviolent crack trade is one reason. Just two weeks ago, the National Center for Education Statistics, in a survey requested by President Clinton, found the incidence of serious crime in schools to be flat. In the past year, only 10% reported a rape, robbery or fight involving a weapon. But again, like crime generally, violent juvenile crime has stabilized at a rate that would have seemed...
...harsh penalties. Under a St. Clair Shores, Mich., ordinance, for example, a couple was fined $2,200 in 1996 after their son pleaded no contest to breaking and entering a church and drug-related charges. Their convictions were later overturned. Says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco: "Parental-responsibility law is a gray area. It's a toothless tiger. We have no research on the laws' effectiveness...
...What is my crime?" D. asked the man at the jury commissioner's office. "Am I not excused by my student status...