The Dallas Morning News, July 19, 2009 by Diane Jennings
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Zimring says the laws allowing juvenile registration are an accidental byproduct of adult policies. “Nobody is making policy for 12-year-olds in American legislatures,” the professor says. “What they’re doing is they’re making crime policy and then almost by accident extending those policies to 12-year-olds—with poisonous consequences.” Zimring thinks it’s inappropriate to register anyone adjudicated as a juvenile…. “We have a cure for youth crime,” he says. “It’s growing up.”