Juvenile Justice is a joke and it is clear that it is getting out of control and no one is holding juveniles accouttable...

What is accouttable mean?

Juveniles are products of their environment.  It is not them, but the adults interfacing with them whom we need to hold accountable.  What is a joke and getting out of control is the massive lock up we have of younsters, which offers nothing in the way of help but only provides an environment where the LEARN criminal, anti-social behavior.  Not only is this a "joke' and out of control, but its one of the biggest human rights abuses we have in this country (not to mention the number of laws broken within a broken system.)  As is said so often, we can't arrest and incarcerate out of this problem. If we spent just half as much on family strengthening supports as we do on the prison system, we would not have the growing mess we have today. And fear-based campaigns that portray youth as monsters are only successful in scaring the general public, woefully unaware of the abuses within the system, into draconion policies that serve to do nothing but exacerbate the problem.