The same word that offended a number of listeners was likely the hook that turned a few of these troubled youth-for however short a time-to an interest in an academic aspect of their language.
Not everyone across all the age groups is interested in playing online, first-person shooters against hordes of preteens with lightening-speed reflexes.
Last month, a Minnesota teen drove through a stop sign and crashed into a tractor trailer, killing himself and leaving his passenger, also a teen, in serious condition.
An effective juvenile justice system is one that offers a host of professional and empirically tested supervision and treatment programs to the youth within the system.