Summary
Stacey Smith sits at her desk at Shelby County Juvenile Court, fixing her gaze on the fidgety 15-year-old with eyes that seem to see what he's doing at this moment, what he did yesterday and maybe the day before.
On this typically busy Monday morning, her first three cases are all 15-year-old boys. They haven't been in enough trouble to discover the inside of a jail cell yet, but they've been driving their families crazy, and Smith's office lies just beyond the end of the rope for parents and caretakers.See the full content of this document
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A Better Village
Like the other two boys Smith will deal with before lunchtime, this one is combative, oppositional, struggling in school, failing all the
great tests of adolescence, and at a crossroads in his life. H is behavior marks him as a candidate for a lifetime of trouble.He is going to leave a urine sample before he leaves this place, Smith tells him. But he just went, he retorts. OK, then, you can go down to the end of the hall and find the drinking fountain.He has an...See the full content of this document
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