Amerika's generaly approach to truancy and delinquency is to lock them up and throw away the key while conveniently ignoring the social aspects of violent crime thereby compounding the problem.

美国对待逃学和少年犯的普遍做法是把他们关起来然后把钥匙丢掉，图省事却忽略了导致暴力犯罪的社会方面，这使得问题反而复杂化。

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Whatever Russia's real intentions, Mr Maskhadov also has plenty of home-grown enemies, thanks to the self-compounding problems of poverty, unemployment, crime and abduction, which have been spreading across the north Caucasian chain of semi-independent territories.

ECONOMIST: The dark side of the Caucasus