We tried a different preschool curriculum to prevent youth crime. Checking in 20 years later, it worked
There’s been an increased political and media focus recently on so-called youth crime waves, particularly in Queensland and the Northern Territory. This has unfortunately led to crackdowns from governments and police. Young people in Alice Springs have been subject to curfews. Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli (who’s ahead in the polls ahead of this weekend’s election) has suggested young people found guilty of some crimes should be sentenced as adults. But punitive youth crime policies violate children’s human rights and are an expensive way of making the community less safe. It’s much better to stop youth crime before it starts by...
Number of Young People Accused of Serious Crimes Surges in New York City
NEW YORK — The number of people under 18 accused of major crimes, including murders, robberies and assaults, has increased sharply in New York City in the past seven years, Police Department figures show — a steep trajectory that has alarmed law enforcement officials.
Child shot in NYC one day before his 12th birthday as city faces outbreak of youth violence
A child was shot in the leg in the Bronx one day before his 12th birthday, police said, as a wave of youth violence plagues the city. The shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. Saturday night at East 188 and Park Avenue. The boy was hit in the leg and taken by EMS to Jacobi Hospital, where he is expected to recover, cops said. Why buying your children too many toys is actually bad for them: study Detectives were on scene in the Fordham section of the Bronx recovering evidence late Saturday, but no arrests have been made and police have not released additional details. The...
Raise the Age has turned juvies into violence-ridden madhouses
New York City’s juvenile detention centers have become overrun madhouses where the worst teen inmates rule, thanks to Raise the Age and other state “reforms.” Per last week’s harrowing Department of Investigations report, Raise the Age — which requires that 16- and 17-year-old perps be housed in juvenile detention centers, not jails, and lets them stay until they’re 21 — combined with bail reforms that condense the worst-of-the-worst teen offenders into youth facilities has “fundamentally altered” the population of the two juvies, Horizon and Crossroads, with an overload of “older” detainees “facing more serious and violent charges.” The facilities are...