ng adults. Robin Templeton heads a Pacific News Service program from youth in the San Francisco Bay area. She agrees that the media frenzy over violent youth crimes are "whipping up public fear and this is correlating with the demand for these ineffective, very expensive crime policies that we see proliferating around the country" (Muwakkil, 2001, n.p.). Templeton argues that legislators across the political spectrum are now more willing to sentence juveniles as adults because the media fear of youth crime has created an atmosphere in which the public is afraid and willing to sacrifice juveniles for their own safety (Muwakkil, 2001, n.p.).
Nonetheless, some media and legal experts claim that the media's treatment of youth violence merely portrays the horrific nature of these crimes and the threat juvenile criminals pose to society at large. In particular, one ABC News article editorialized that some experts approve of prosecuting juveniles as adults because juveniles are committing more extreme crimes at younger ages (Robinson, 2003, n.p.). If thi
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