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 ars in the field of juvenile justice, I've seen my share of frenzied media coverage following horrific, idiosyncratic events. The calls usually come from desperate TV producers seeking similarly unique murders so they can pull file tape from one of their smalltown affiliates to complete their theme, cooked up in the newsroom that morning.This summer, I was interviewed by an ambitious Rolling Stone reporter who had assembled a handful of vignettes of abhorrent teenage crimes, some several years old, to prove his point that heinous juvenile offenses were proliferating. When it was pointed out to him that a few individual acts in a nation of 260 million people hardly represented a trend, he continued, undaunted, with his predetermined story line.It's this type of coverage that drives our inflated sense of crime. For example, since 1993, the homicide rate nationwide dropped by 20 percent. Yet since 1993, coverage of murders on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news increased by 721 percent. In 1993 the number of American
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