Criminal Law

Juvenile Detention: The Solution or The Problem Behind Offenses by Youths
Juvenile detention costs New York City taxpayers $200,000 per year per youth. In dollars. There are other, social costs. Juvenile detention may be viewed as the proverbial fork in the road, where young people are more likely to veer off on the path toward a life of repeat offender crimes...

Los Angeles Sees Rise In Hate Crimes, Including Religiously Motivated Incidents
According to an AP story yesterday, hate crimes rose significantly in Los Angeles County, California last year, even though the overall crime rate dropped. A majority of the hate crimes were racially motivated...

L.A. County has most hate crimes in five years, study finds
Hate crimes reported in Los Angeles County were at the highest level in five years in 2007, despite crime dropping by 6 percent, finds a report by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations...

9/11 turns L.A. lawyer into war crimes expert
KPCC Public Radio did a short interview with former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Barbara Mulvaney yesterday about her move from prosecuting white collar crimes in L.A. to Rwandan military leaders accused of war crimes (LISTEN, Read Transcript)...

NY Times Editorial on Juvenile Lifers: "A Shameful Record"
February 6, 2008 Editorial, NY Times A Shameful Record The United States leads the world in a shameful category: the number of people it has locked up for life without parole for crimes committed by juveniles...

State agrees to settlement providing juvenile parole violators with lawyers and timely hearings
A tentative settlement was reached in a federal class-action lawsuit where juvenile parole violators are claiming prison officials violated their constitutional rights, the Los Angeles Times reported...

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Juvenile Disabled
Kings County pays $4 million in inmate hanging settlement.