Juvenile Crime Boot Camps
Thirteen dead, over twenty wounded in a suburb of Denver Colorado, from a threat far greater than any Iranian terrorists. The threat is from within, the threat is our children. Youth Violence is a more common occurrence than the media would like us to believe. Similar instances have happened many times before: in Paducah, KY, three students were killed by a fellow student during a morning prayer circle(Leung). Also in Pearl MS, two were killed over a simple breakup (CNN), and in Springfield, OR, a sixteen-year-old killed one youth and critically wounded twenty-three over the alienation from his schoolmates (Barnard). Not to mention the sad atrocity in New Jersey where a young teen couple threw their newborn kid into a dumpster on a subfreezing night(Bad Seeds). This kind of delinquency is a problem, luckily all problems have solutions. Unfortunately the proper solutions are simply overlooked for the similar programs that address the problems cheaper. So the public believes that this type of treatment will do. However, we need something new, something radical to curb the growing violence among the youth in America. Society needs boot camps. Not just any type of boot camp. Those have been tried,
CNN and Assoc. Press. "As many as 25 dead in Colorado school attack" CNN.com Apr. 1999. Online. Internet: WWW. Address: http://cnn.com/US/9904/20/school.shooting.08/ index.html Apr. 1999. Internet. WWW. Address: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_97/96crime/96crime2.pdf Lueng, Rebecca. "Paducah Remembers" ABCNEWS.com Dec. 1998. Online Internet: WWW. Address: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/paducah_community981211.html Dec. 1998 Zaehringer, Brent. "Juvenile Boot Camps: Cost and Effectiveness vs. Residential Facilities" Koch Crime Institute White Paper Repot Jul. 1998. Online. Internet: WWW. National Crime Prevention Council. "Fast Crime Facts" National Crime Prevention Council. Online. Internet: WWW. Address: http://www.ncpc.org/11stat.htm
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