A 15-year-old arrested for spraying grafﬁti sat before a jury of his peers and a 16-year-old judge at a session of the Red Hook youth court in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Joe Tabacca) Joe Tabacca

Making crime hit home for offenders

Community boards focus on accountability and restitution

By Tatsha Robertson

Globe Staff / February 28, 2005

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NEW YORK -- The playful banter of two dozen teenagers rang throughout a spare, airy room one recent evening in Brooklyn, but the young voices immediately fell silent once a 15-year-old boy in baggy pants and a hooded sweatshirt walked in alone, looking perplexed. (Full article: 1457 words)