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LynNell Hancock
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LynNell Hancock is a professor emerita at Columbia Journalism School.
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November 23, 2021
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LynNell Hancock
When Denver Lost Its Mind Over Youth Crime
How the city’s media created public panic over a crime wave that wasn’t and dismantled Colorado’s storied juvenile justice system
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