Question

1.What do you see as the major causes for the increase in violent crimes committed by adolescents?

2.Should we charge adolescents who commit deadly crimes as adults


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Answer 1

Since the late 1980s, there has been growing concern about crimes committed by young people. News accounts of serious crimes committed by children and adolescents and criminologists' warnings of a coming tide of vicious juveniles—sometimes referred to as superpredators (see, e.g., Bennett et al., 1996)