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The courts cut people's hair because Johnny says that it's a way of "breaking them". Since Greasers are very poor, the symbol of who they are are their long greasy hair. They can't afford mustangs or madras or rings like the socs that symbolize they are the richer group. The court believes that by cutting the only thing that the Greasers have- their hair- it would be a way of breaking them since they can't take anything else away from them.

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