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The article “Minori e criminalità. Le etichette che hanno successo e i dati che fanno pensare” [Minors and Crime: Successful Labels and Thought-Provoking Data] by Roberto Cornelli, published in Minorigiustizia 2/2025, examines how the media spotlight has become firmly fixed on juvenile crime. News outlets report almost daily on crimes involving minors or raids by so-called “baby gangs”; experts express concern about youth distress that, left unaddressed, can erupt into violence; local communities are left in shock when teenagers go so far as to commit family massacres or group sexual assaults. The way young people are viewed today seems to intersect with two major issues – security and migration – which have shaped criminal policy (and beyond) over the past thirty years. At the crossroads of migration and security, almost every incident involving minors takes on media and political significance, treated as evidence of rampant urban violence.

However, an analysis of the available, well-established data does not seem to support this emergency narrative. If anything, it points to the hypothesis – initially backed by monthly incarceration trends – that political choices are accelerating the crisis of the juvenile justice system, leading to overcrowding in Juvenile Detention Institutes.

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