Young Blood
Young Blood
Teenage crime and violence are escalating at an alarming rate. Drugs and gangs are everywhere...and in many neighborhoods people are afraid to walk outside their homes. This hard hitting book examines juvenile crime and its effects on victims, perpetrators and their families.
Shirley Dicks whose son Jeff is on
death row knows from personal
experience how one senseless
act can forever alter the lives of everyone
involved. Dicks examines the problems
of today's
youths, the types of crimes committed
and suggestions to keep our young people from following
the criminal path.
Young Blood features writings by
death row
inmates, family members of victims
and perpetrators,
religious and political figures, journalists,
criminologists and legal experts, along
with information
on programs designed to help young
people who have gone astray.
Intimate
personal accounts
reveal the fear and regret of death row
inmates as well as the horror and anxiety of their loved
ones. In one moving chapter, a mother
speaks candidly about the murder
of her daughter and
how she feels toward the murderer.
Alternately grief stricken and angry,
she concludes that it is
up to every citizen to play a part
in helping our children before
they grow up to become gun
toting hoodlums.
Young Blood advocates rehabilitation
programs, a new national emphasis
on broken families and
the problems of youth, child care for
single parents, and an overhaul
of the juvenile justice
system. Dicks calls for a distinction
between justice and revenge, and
offers a provocative,
wrenching yet realistic look at a
problem that threatens the future of our society.
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