Juvenile Crime

An increasing number of violent crimes by minors have focused legislators and the public on where to posit responsibility for such crimes. As the massacre at Columbine High School shows, increasingly law enforcement and the public are targeting parents as responsible for the actions of minors who commit violent crimes. The family of one of the students slain in the massacre sued the parents of the two teenage gunmen for $250 million, accusing them of negligence (Hilliard, 1999, p. 1). The lawsuit names Wayne and Katherine Harris and Thomas and Susan Klebold, whose sons Eric and Dylan killed 12 students and a teacher before taking their own lives. From a diary explaining the massacre plan and bomb-making materials to a sawed-off shotgun barrel on a dresser in Eric Harris' bedroom, Sheriff John Stone claimed, "I think parents

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