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Article: Public's tougher crime stance challenging juvenile system Grant case but one example of change in handling youths
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 12, 1995
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A generation ago, Gina Grant would probably still be headed for
Harvard College and an adult life in which she would never have to
confront in public a crime she committed as a 14-year-old high school
freshman.
But Grant -- whose case became public last week, five years after
she bludgeoned her mother to death -- has found what thousands of
other teen-age offenders have discovered: that some protections once
afforded juveniles in the criminal justice system have dissolved.
A skyrocketing juvenile crime rate and public pressure for tougher
sanctions on violent criminals have led to an increase in treating
teen-agers as adults. In 1992, the most recent year for which
figures are available, ...