11 parts Complete MatureChicago. America's deadliest city. Rates of homicide and violent crime are skyrocketing, the highest in the nation, the city sharply divided in walled communities of rich and poor, black and white. A beleaguered police force contends daily with criminal gang activity grown out of control, especially as it involves juveniles.
Growing numbers of increasingly younger offenders are committing increasingly violent crimes, drug lords taking advantage of the fact that, due to their ages, the law holds them only partially responsible for their actions, if at all. Despite numerous initiatives to combat the problem, including juvenile peer counseling, mock courts and restorative justice programs, rates of recidivism among young offenders remain high.
Mirroring the adult criminal justice system, juvenile courts are jammed, reformatories and detention centers overrun. Trial proceedings involving young offenders, some as young as ten or eight, are plagued with unsolvable problems. Defense lawyers are unable to effectively communicate with their clients, who, while contemptuous of the legal system, do not understand it. Prosecutors and the judiciary are at a loss as to how to deal with juveniles in trial settings, or how to impose just punishment. Sentences the courts hand down rarely reflect the severity of the crimes.
In the words of countless commissions launched to study the problem, in this city and others nationwide, the need for change has never been greater: it is now.
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