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Teen crime needs balanced reponse
There's a balancing act in protecting children from their poor decisions and keeping the rest of society safe. In 1996, Virginia's lawmakers, like those in many other states, looked at juvenile crime statistics and worried that a wave of youth violence was becoming a tsunami. And like lawmakers in many states, Virginia's overreacted.
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