Word: krisberg
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...illness was not given due weight and feel that he is unlikely to get proper mental-health care in prison. "It's throwing away a life without regard for the possibility that Kinkel could change or that the circumstances that led to this could be mediated," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. But Jennifer Alldredge, a student shot by Kinkel, is unmoved: "I don't see how you could ever justify someone who did this being outside and free to do this again," she says...
...mourning in Springfield has not prevented second-guessing. Should the school have helped more? Should police have detained Kinkel when he was first caught with a gun? Officials insist they were following the law in releasing a juvenile with no criminal record to his parents. But Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco, asks, "If detention was not called for, where is the counseling? A child bringing a gun to school needs help." Now Kinkel will be tried as an adult, although under Oregon law he is too young to be subject...
...killings. But child-development experts say that for 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...
...cases in which parents have suffered 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...