1.   How can we ever hope to make the sport clean when we treat offenders so leniently?

2.   No one would suggest that sex offenders should be treated lightly.

3.   Probation officers and those who treat juvenile offenders within the community say violence is an ongoing problem in the three lockups.

4.   Although some prosecutors and experts on treating sexual offenders question whether tougher laws are necessary or fair, mandatory life imprisonment laws for a second rape are spreading.

5.   A number of states have closed their boot camps and begun rethinking how their penal laws treat young offenders.

6.   But not, she said, at the expense of safeguards against treating juvenile offenders as adults except in the most serious cases.

7.   But people who treat sex offenders say they typically justify under-age sex by saying the victim is advanced emotionally.

8.   But there is also broiling debate about whether the push to treat young offenders like adults keeps youths from committing more crimes or merely reinforces early criminal tendencies.

9.   Chicago police announced this week that they are reviewing how they treat juvenile offenders.

10.   He defends treating offenders as adults by saying it is the most effective way to get their attention.