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Understanding 1993’s ‘Summer of Violence’ and how it influenced criminal justice

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It was dubbed "The Summer of Violence." A period in 1993 when there were several high profile killings in Denver. It led lawmakers to pass harsher punishments for juveniles. But in The New Republic, education reporter LynNell Hancock writes that there was mass hysteria, more than mass violence.