They were demonized as representing a new and different breed of delinquents. They clumped every adolescent together and denounced them to be evil, especially the inner-male city minorities. Because of this, all adolescent offenders were marked as “super predators” who were dangerous and unrepentant. Lastly, because of the toughen hearts of the public, they viewed the justice system as incompetent of controlling youth crime and controlling youth offenders. These 3 things--magnified fear of crime, demonization of youth, and distinguished incompetence of the justice system – were capitalized on in the political stand point to enhance legislation and public policies that makes youth offenders, adolescent’s adults, and shifted caution in determining transports of cases to criminal court from judges to
They were demonized as representing a new and different breed of delinquents. They clumped every adolescent together and denounced them to be evil, especially the inner-male city minorities. Because of this, all adolescent offenders were marked as “super predators” who were dangerous and unrepentant. Lastly, because of the toughen hearts of the public, they viewed the justice system as incompetent of controlling youth crime and controlling youth offenders. These 3 things--magnified fear of crime, demonization of youth, and distinguished incompetence of the justice system – were capitalized on in the political stand point to enhance legislation and public policies that makes youth offenders, adolescent’s adults, and shifted caution in determining transports of cases to criminal court from judges to