This year, more than half a dozen states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri and Utah, have passed new laws reshaping their juvenile legal systems. While some have adopted measures designed to divert more young people from incarceration, others have sought to impose stiffer penalties and expand prosecutors’ authority to pursue adult charges.
The opposite tacks underscore an increasingly fractured approach to juvenile justice nationwide.
Related, “In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10 - A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.” (arc)
Yes as someone from a state with Republican governor Republican Senators and all But one Republican House member. Whose neighboring states to the west south and east were all mentioned but somehow not mentioned Itself by name. I can vouch for much of that. There certainly is no shortage of cruel, myopic, easily manipulated people around.
Certainly too many people are born that way, but I also think a lot of people develop all those tendencies as a perverse response to being traumatized by authority figures