Bennett, crimes committed by male's ages 14 to 17 will increase by 23 percent between 1995 and 2005 (Wittiuk 438). ... Growing numbers of young people, often from broken homes or so-called dysfunctional families, are committing murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping, and other violent acts. ... Arrests of 18-year-old to 20-year-old males for murder over the same period increased 119 percent. ... If the gang is looking to murder a member of a rival gang they can have a fifteen year old do it to "make his bones" (almost an initiation, to prove his loyalty to the gang) and even if he does get ca...

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