The Nation - News from Nov. 26, 1985

A researcher who tracked the criminal history of every person born in 1958 who lived in Philadelphia from 1968 to 1975 says his study shows that the juvenile justice system is too soft on the chronic offender. “We know who he is by the time he is 13 or 14,” said Paul E. Tracy, assistant professor of criminal justice at Boston’s Northeastern University. “My idea is, let’s do something about him early and not wait until he’s an adult.”