Are Young Kids Committing Crime?

Teens should be spent to adult jail for the crime they committed! In the late 1980s juveniles have been committing crimes during the period of this time, many of them were getting in trouble more often, crimes were getting more violent by this time. On June 25, 2012 The Supreme Court justices who agrued to abolish mandatory sentences to life in prison for juveniles who commit murder or any crimes reflecting the will of Americans society should be punished as an adult . Justice Alito noted that , “Even a 17 ½ -year-old who set off a bomb in a crowded mall or guns down a dozen students and teacher is ‘child’ and must be given a chance to persuade a judge to permit his release into society…” In other words I agree that teens should be sentenced to life in prison, if I did the same crime I should be punished the same way as an adult who has committed the same crime because during this age I know what I am doing wrong and right. I believe that teen should be sentenced to life in prison because the victim's family reactions, rehabilitation, they should understand the consequences of their actions, mental health issues, and heinous crimes.

The truth of the matter is a "kid", "teens" or however you want to call it; are not a grown ups we aren't given the same rights as grown-ups and majority of the time are ignored because we ar not grown-ups; however when it come to crimes we are most definitely taken into considerations. After considering both sides of the debate on juvenile justice, it is clear that juveniles should not face life without parole for the reason that we aren't taken in consideration most of the time as well as our immaturity.

Juvenile who show remorse for the crimes they commited should not be sentenced life without parole. Some kids commit crimes without realizing the damage they’ve cause, and I don’t think it's fair to be sentenced to life without parole. In the book “Just Mercy” the story of Trina who accidentally set a house on fire that killed two people. She was only fourteen, mentally disabled and sentenced to life in prison without parole for a crime she didn't’ intend to commit. A Lot of the crimes that committed by kids are usually mental illness and bad upbring and they shouldn’t be imprisoned for life without parole.

There has been a lot of discussion regarding juveniles and incarceration. One of the bigger questions is should juveniles receive life without parole or the death penalty. In my opinion, it depends on the crime and not the age of the suspect at the time of the crime. I believe all murderers should be given life without parole at the very minimum, regardless of the age of the suspect. I understand the law, but I do not necessarily agree with the law regarding punishments and protecting suspects while the victims have to fight for justice. With that being said, I believe in, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

Throughout the years i think adolescents are old enough to distinguish right from wrong but I think they are too young to make right decisions. If adults go to jail for killing or making violent crimes than adolescents should definitely face the consequences and serve time. When juveniles are serving their time in jail and getting rehabilitation and they accept the fact that they did wrong and have overcome their mistakes I think that they should get a second chance.

There are more than two thousand cases of teens where they are sent to prison for life without parole after murdering other people. Most cases were of juveniles killing their parents or guardians after their knowledge of abuse. Juveniles that get sent to either juvenile hall or to be tried as adults do not receive fair defense teams, have prosecutors that are very manipulative, and experience physical and emotional trauma, which affects them for a very long time. Juveniles that get punished and sentenced do not have a very good source of rehabilitation or a place of rest after their crime. They are sent to trial within six days of their crime, out of shock and previous physical and mental trauma. Considering the potential dangers of juveniles

Many times in the news we hear about adolescents facing charges that can forever dictate their lives. There have been cases where children have been faced with the chance of life of prison without the chance of parole. This topic has been a discussion that has been more popular and popular with the more cases that appear. This is now a major issue in our modern society with younger adolescents becoming more exposed to violence. We now have to take teenage crimes and their punishments into consideration as we all know there will be many more cases in the future so it is only reasonable to come up with a solution on how to deal with these juveniles. I for one believe that juveniles should not be sentenced to life without parole.

Juveniles should not be tried and sentenced as adults because their brains are not fully matured thus making the process impossible to undergo the experiences of being tried and sentenced as an adult. The juvenile justice system needs to be revised and start to work towards helping the juveniles find the right path and not setting them up to fail. Some people might say that these adolescents need to just fall silent and do the time in adult prison. The problem is, youth cannot do the same time like an adult would, because they are not adults, no matter how much society would like them to carry themselves as so, they simply cannot. The public should put themselves in the juvenile’s shoes and become aware of all the trauma and abuse the juveniles live through while being tried and sentenced as an adult.

Teen killers do in fact deserve a punishment in a juvenile facility where they can get help and better them self’s to have time to grow to eventually regret their past actions. Although the crimes that they have committed maybe horrible they should not be sent to an adult prison where they will become worse than they already are due to the gangs in side those prisons influencing the adolescences to become like them and commit more crimes inside those adult

Now at the same time there are some juveniles that deserve life sentences such as the offender in the article written by Jennifer Jenkins. This offence wasn't out of necessity nor was it an accident from what Jenkins stated. Personally that’s where the line should be drawn by the government. Youth should not be sentenced to life without parole unless they purposely kill a person without probable cause, which in most cases is in the act of self defense. Other than that teens shouldn’t be tried as adults until they are age eighteen. What do you propose regarding youth being tried as

Do you remember when you were scolded by your parent after you stayed beyond your curfew or scratched your their car? You were probably in trouble but then given another opportunity to redeem yourself. Just as a parent forgives his child when they did something wrong after they face their consequences, our judicial system should not sentence juveniles as adults since adults can face life in prison. In 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles cannot be sentenced as adults and serve life sentences. They argued that life sentences would be unconstitutional because they would violate the 8th amendment regarding the ban of cruel and unusual punishments. Juvenile should not be sentenced as adults when they commit heinous

    Teens deserve to be tried as adults if they are going to commit violent crimes. There are around 1,300 cases of teens murdering the United States. JLWOP means juvenile life without parole, a sentence many of these teens serve. Teens should be tried as adults because although they are young, their crimes are still gruesome; they know what they are doing is wrong, and their brains are not an excuse for their behavior.

In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brains rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and awareness of long-term consequences. In teen’s brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision making center are still developing and not necessarily at the same rate. That’s why when teens experience overwhelming emotional in put. They weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling. However, Punishment should fit the crime? No, because teenagers they are still learning and them brains are still developing. Most the time teens make foolish mistake. For example murder someone, rapping, and steal. Court need to give second chance, they shouldn’t be placed in a jail for the rest of their lives but instead they should be helped through their trouble, not punish for a

Reason being that Gail Garinger states in his article that they are to young and that there minds are not fully developed. Kids that are young mainly do not know what they are doing and do not double think before committing their actions. Marjie Lundstrom mentions that, “the nation’s juvenile arrest rate for murder fell sixty-eight percent from 1993-1999. They also hit the lowest level since 1966, according to the Justice Department.” This percentage to me makes me believe that they might know what they are doing if the percentage can even reach this

I do not think it is a good idea to lock juveniles up in prisons with adults. For a child to set down and plan a murder for instance, there would have to be some kind of deep emotional problem. On the other side of this, if the child knows right from wrong and he can sit down and plan a murder, then you could say if he is old enough to kill someone then he is old enough to die. The juvenile criminal is rooted much deeper than right from wrong. It starts back from when they are small children. Most of them are usually outsiders or outcasts. Who can you hold fault for that other than society? If juveniles don't fit in with the popular kids in school they are considered an