By the time they hit their twenties a more'n a few of these guys are getting their heads straight, except they have teenage felonies following them around through life.
Sorry
I'd say it's a bit of a shame that their "teenage felonies" aren't followed by their immediate DEATH, and would as soon hang them as council them.
Today's "Youth" gangs are NOT Little Rascals, or Our Gang comedy shows.
GTC
Depends on the felony, depends on the kid.
A kid in a bad neighborhood can get upside the law with the best of intentions.
One guy who comes to mind was a foster kid who was outraged when someone did a drive-by on his cousin's house when their infant daughter was in it. Now this foster kid was a scrawny little guy, but knowing where the perp lived he took a baseball bat, walked a couple of miles to that residence, and laid the fugger out in broad daylight in his own driveway. The Cops picked him up on his walk home. (The kid resisted arrest, and was being roughly handled as a result, to hear him tell it he kept trying to throw himself in front of the Cop car camera to get it on tape
). I'm pretty sure that guy must be incarcerated somewhere for something by now. I will say this, if ya ever had did anything decent for that kid he remembered it and woulda watched your back in a tight spot 100%
Another was a former student several years back who, wearing a ski mask, came on campus with a tire iron and laid some punk out right there in the parking lot, immediately thereafter successfully fleeing the scene. The reason was said punk had the previous weekend raped his younger sister at a party, both the tire iron guy and the sister were decent kids. He got away with it, nobody seems to have looked real hard.
Birdwatcher
