The Criminal Justice system is gonna have to be creative if they're gonna wake up to this problem, because there's no room in jail or juvenile hall for kids who commit petty crime, and that's probably not what they need anyway. Restitution and a lot of community service would probably work better. Or the old eye-for-an-eye system, maybe the judge could let you smash up the kid's skateboard or back your injured stovebolt over a pile of his CDs as retribution
