Deja Vu All Over Again: the Myth of the Kid-Driven Crime Wave
Despite a “huge decline” in homicides, violence and crime by Los Angeles youth over the last decade, and similar declines in youth crimes in other larger American cities, law enforcement officials got together in Washington DC last month and, reminiscent of the teenage superpredator scare erroneously trumpeted by academics in the early and mid 1990's, warned of what juvenile justice researcher MIKE MALES calls “imaginary” youth crime epidemics. For the Los Angeles Times