Appreciate your thoughts. Listen for how the arbitrary age of 18 in the criminal legal system doesn’t account for normal developmental behavior. Our responses need to address the why piece to be effective. Kinscherff gives examples of what we could be doing to prevent crime and respond effectively.

“I can’t imagine having to relive this terrible assault so long after it happened. She courageously came to court and testified in front of the man responsible for harming her.”

• Offer practical viewpoints from my years of fieldwork with youth gangs, schools and victim-survivor networks on how to shift focus from reaction to prevention.

• Discuss the role of the “true-crime community,” social media, memes, and digital platforms in how violence is framed, consumed, repeated—and how that may influence real-world performances.

• Review the shooter’s writings and diary material—not to sensationalize, but to understand the driver dynamics of identity, imitation, and copycat phenomena.

“Prosecution deters tax fraud and makes clear that the victim of tax fraud is not the government — our communities pay the price,” Moriarty said.

“One of our purposes in putting on this summit was to bring a lot of community partners together but also to make to make sure people in the community who are experiencing domestic violence understand that there's help," said Moriarty.

Listen to this episode with Alec Karakatsanis to understand why and how media, politicians, and others who benefit from the way things are shape our views about crime and public safety.