On Handcuffed and Felonious Children

http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0209.html
Date Written:  2005-02-09
Publisher:  ifeminists.net
Year Published:  2005
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11118

Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law in an extreme and uncompromising manner to any activity, violent or not, that is deemed to be anti-social.

Subject Headings

• Children
• Police Powers
• Police Procedures
• School Safety
• School Security
• Schools
• Zero Tolerance