User talk:Maggiejo10/sandbox

Goals for this Friday's revisions
Hi Maggiejo10! You have found some compelling statistics for your section on youth and crime. The next steps are to plan how to integrate your research into the larger article; I would aim for a total of three or more paragraphs. In revising the paragraph you have, strive to write in a Wikipedia style, using language and citation formats that standardize with other articles. For examples, seek out articles that have received "good" or "featured" article status.

Your paragraph has information on youth as victims of crime, youth as perpetrators of crime, and youth as both (i.e., delinquents are also victims). I urge you to also look for material on the gangs of street youth that were both criminals but also killed by vigilantes and militias. One widely cited book is At Home in the Street by Tobias Hecht. The fact that much less is written about these kids now is one that would merit researching. What has changed - the incidence of crime by street kids, the number of street kids, or the interest in researching about them? I found several articles by searching "adolescents, crime, Brazil".

Finally, you had originally planned to also clean up the article in general per the advice of the headers in the article. It looks like these banners have been taken off now. Do you see any edits that could be made?Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 19:45, 30 April 2013 (UTC)