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The Heritage Foundation is having a very important event on Monday at 11:30, in conjuction with the release of a new book by Charles "Cully" Stimson" and Andrew Grossman, about the problem of treating violent criminals too leniently just because they aren't yet 18. The forumis called "Adult Time for Adult Crimes: Exposing the Movement to Set Free Juvenile Killers and Violent Offenders." In addition to Stimson, a senior legal fellow at Heritage, the forum also features noted trial attorney David Horowitz and Paul Wallace of the Delaware Department of Justice. (Grossman just left Heritage to take up a federal court clerkship.) The book is embargoed until Monday, but suffice it to say that it is chock full of examples of horrible violent criminals who darn well were old enough to nkow exactly what they were doing, and who are extremely dangerous, who nevertheless get treated with, yes, kid gloves, and then get let out to terrorize other innocent victims. Do be on the lookout for the book, available from Heritage.
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Oldefarte| 8.15.09 @ 12:33PM
The juvenile criminal/court system is a joke. A human being reaches the AGE OF REASON at approximately nine years old, and is capable of distinguishing RIGHT from WRONG at that age. A fifteen year old CHILD should be held accountable for his crime committed the same as an adult. The solution would be to establish a system of boot-camp type prisons [staffed with psychologists and psychiatrists] that could re-program their bad behavior and possibly turn them into responsible adults. The current SLAP-ON-THE-WRIST system is worthless and ludicrous!!!!!!!!!!
toad| 8.15.09 @ 4:34PM
One thing about the juvenile court system is that the trials in some states are often closed to reporters to "protect" the juveniles. This causes two problems, the overly lenient sentencing and in some cases overly harsh sentencing. In both cases political influence is brought to bear on the judge. In my opinion the society and the juvenile offender would be better served by an "open" court system, with the presence of the press allowed.
Alan Brooks| 8.15.09 @ 6:57PM
send them to Egyptian prisons.
Alan Brooks| 8.16.09 @ 9:53AM
... or public schools.
Alan Brooks| 8.16.09 @ 10:02AM
no matter what is done, the result is ugly. Back forty years ago, so many youths were radicals, now many are nihilists. . Corrections fails because the criminals learn to mask their sociopathology.
or psych0pathology.
Social progress is not only dead, it died a long time ago.