Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

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8 pages in length. Juvenile threats are manifested in myriad ways from the seemingly innocuous act of graffiti to the heinous and arbitrary aspect of drive-by shootings. The extent to which juvenile delinquency and gang violence is present in every community in one fashion or another is both grand and far-reaching; that Los Angeles reflects a particularly concentrated incidence level of these juvenile threats speaks to the ongoing struggle this southern California city continues to identify, address and try to prevent. Bibliography lists 11 sources.