Rural Police and Rural Youth

This text presents the authors' view on dealing with rural juvenile offenders. Discussions include how the problems of rural youth and rural juvenile offenders are different from their urban peers. He suggests a policy of minimum police intervention in rural juvenile offenses. He bases his views on the fact that the majority of rural crime is trivial in nature and does not present a threat to the community at large. Therefore, repressive incarceration is not necessary and counterproductive.