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What Next | Should Parents Face Charges for Kids’ Crimes?

What Next | Should Parents Face Charges for Kids’ Crimes?

Prosecuting parents seems like another way to treat a symptom and ignore the disease.

Slate Debates

September 9, 202429m 40s

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Show Notes

After the school shooting in Georgia last week, charges were brought against the 14-year-old alleged gunman—and also against his father. Who’s really responsible?


Guest: Josie Duffy Rice, journalist focused on prosecutors, prisons, and other criminal justice issues and host of What A Day.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.

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