‘You Cannot Rehabilitate the Hoodie’: Geraldo Rivera Places Blame on Trayvon Martin’s Attire

“I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was," Geraldo Rivera told Fox and Friends anchors Brian Kilmeade and...

Letters, Aug. 1, 1977

Young Criminals To the Editors: Your picture of juvenile delinquency in today's society [July 11] is shocking and depressing. But as one of the thousands of...

THE YOUTH CRIME PLAGUE

Chicago. Johnny, 16, who had a long record of arrests for disorderly conduct, simple battery and aggravated assault, lured a motorist into an alley. He drew a...

I Was a Teacher, Now I Want to Work on Construction Sites. Help!

Dear TIME Moneyland, I had always wanted to be a teacher, but after I got my undergrad degree, I began thinking I wanted to be a project or construction manager...

Can Britain Save Its Wayward Youth?

Purpose-built for the poor, the tenement block has never seen good days, but someone once cared enough to decorate its narrow hall with a print of a wide-eyed...

Bad Company

Outside the schoolyard, Ah Qing cradles the bomb in his palm. Called a "mountain pig" for its ferocity, the homemade grenade, loaded with gunpowder and wrapped...

Dead-End Kids

After Japan's bubble economy burst, youth crime surged, brutal schoolyard beatings became frequent and teenage prostitution evolved into a regular part of urban...

Law: A Bit Wild in the Big City

Youth crime grows, as booze spreads and Babushka recedes Mark Kasakevich, 19, a Soviet emigrant to the U.S., has a haunting recollection of his old life in...

Chicago's NATO Summit: In the Shadow of Global Geo-Politics, the Realities of An American City

For several days leading up to the start of NATO Summit in Chicago, protests, while large and passionate, were a controlled and carefully orchestrated affair. ...

Milestones

DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, Palestinian terrorist leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, during which...