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I do wonder, what, exactly they mean by non-violent crimes. It's early in the morning and my brain isn't quite up to snuff yet, but all I can think of are vandalism, copyright violation, and stealing...?

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Most property crimes, such as theft, embezzlement, receipt of stolen goods, vandalism, and arson of personal property

Fraud, tax crimes, other forms of white collar crime

Drug and alcohol-related crimes

Prostitution

Racketeering and gambling

Bribery

From: https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/non-violent-v...

I don't think they're locking kids up in juvie for tax evasion...

Technically children do have to pay taxes.

Simply "not paying" taxes gets you a bill, not jail time. It's hard work to do the kind of evasion that gets jail time.

It would include drug crimes as well. I think you can take the words at face value (with an implied 'physically' modifying 'violent'), except that crimes involving only the threat of violence may count as violent crimes.

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