Mo. tries new approach on teen offenders
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At age 9, Korey Davis came home from school with gang writing on his arm. At 10, he jacked his first car. At 13, he and some buddies got guns, used them to relieve a man of his Jeep, and later, while trying to outrun a police helicopter, smacked their hot wheels into a fire hydrant.
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U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed  requiring sex offenders to register their e-mail and instant  messaging addresses with law enforcement authorities in a bid  to protect children using popular social Internet sites like  MySpace.
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The surest way to get teenagers to do something is to tell them not to.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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Jeffrey Swisher was caught using a video camera to peer up the skirts of teenagers at a mall, and law enforcement officials were eager to put him behind bars for a long time.
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A 17-year-old Michigan teenager is accused of plotting a Columbine-like attack on a high school after police say the plan was foiled by a man thousands of miles away.
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The popular online hangout MySpace said Tuesday it will develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders, the site's latest attempt to address complaints about sexual predators and other dangers to teens.
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Plans for more "chemical castrations" will be among measures to crackdown on child sex offenders.
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When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined that the judge would punish her &#151; and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.
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Officials in two states proposed unusual plans Monday to tighten oversight of convicted sex offenders: Virginia's attorney general wants them to register their e-mail addresses and online IDs, and New York officials want them to take lie-detector tests.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit. Transformation happens through an instantaneous miracle; it then builds the prisoner up with familiarity of the Bible."...
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By Karen Cimino, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 25--Local teens don't want adults to tell city and county officials what they need and want. They want to do it themselves, and in their own words.
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City officials are move up a nighttime curfew as they try to overcome a spike in crime that's been marked by a rise in juvenile arrests.
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New measures offering some persistent offenders an alternative to prison are  unveiled by Cathy Jamieson.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Officials in two states proposed unusual plans Monday to tighten oversight of convicted sex offenders: Virginia's attorney general wants them to register their e-mail addresses and online IDs, and New York officials want them to take lie-detector tests.
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Details of missing high risk sex offenders could be published on the internet to alert parents.
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The arrest of an Arizona man wanted for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender led Montgomery County detectives to what officials describe as one of the larger and more sophisticated methamphetamine labs ever found in the county.