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Vandalism - What Your Kids Need to Know About Graffiti

By Steven Rodriguez

School is out and with jobs in short supply this summer, more children and teens are hanging out with friends, milling around, looking for something to do. As they say, “Idle hands are the devil’s playground,” and the combination of peer pressure, long summer days and boredom are a perfect combination for decorating the neighborhood with a little graffiti. Most teens think of graffiti, also called “tagging,” as harmless fun or an artful prank. It’s a way to leave their mark on the world that they don’t think hurts anyone. But home and property owners take a dim view of graffiti, and the law calls it a crime. Graffiti defaces and devalues property. It costs money — often quite a lot of money — and hard work to remove graffiti...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).