Children Learned From Mistakes

Violent juveniles should be considered as adult criminals. Many violent juveniles commit heinous crimes, but only given small sentences or probation. During the probation period, violent juveniles still commit similar crimes because they never realize the consequences of their actions. Juveniles should be treated as adult criminals because many of them are repeated offenders. If you let a problem continue on, it only seems to get worst. With many of these juveniles when they do not learn from the first crime they commit they move on to more serious crimes.

Children in adult prison are in severe danger. They suffer higher rates of physical and sexual abuse and suicide. Compared to those held in juvenile detention centers, youth held in adult jails are 7.7 times more likely to commit suicide. Five times more likely to be sexually assaulted. Twice as likely to be beaten by staff. 50% are more likely to be attacked with a weapon. In the public’s eye, the teens that suffer through this are just getting what they deserve. But in reality the restricted youth are at great risk of sexual assault. More than 1 in 10 youth in state juvenile facilities and large non-state facilities reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another youth or facility staff in the past 12 months or since admission, if less than 12 months. We agree that adult court is for the most serious and radical offenders. While it is true that juvenile offenders are waivered to adult courts because they are a menace to the community and the reasoning of their crime, did it occur to you that youths held in adult prison are at greater risk of sexual victimization? The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission found that “more than any other group of incarcerated persons, youth incarcerated with adults are probably at the highest risk for sexual abuse.” Some of you may say that this isn’t such a horrible thing compared to their sins. But this crucial and inhuman act may be more deadly than you think.

Once a child is label a criminal there is no way in taking that back, because they start to believe that they are criminals that the world has given up on them and what’s the point of proving that theory wrong. So, when they are released out of juvenile detention or prison they just fall back to the same pattern. Especially because when they are sent away, they are left alone in horrible conditions and treated like

They could easily be assaulted and left with both physical and emotional scars. One in five victims of sexual violence in jails or prison are under the age of 18. Youth in adult prisons are thirty six times more likely to commit suicide than those in the juvenile system. Not to mention, they are allowed only very strict and monitored social exchanges, if any. This is detrimental to their social health. When released, with much of society despising former inmates, it will be hard to start over and get a new life. If sending teens to prison actually taught them a lesson, it would be all in vain. Moreover, if they are sent to prison, they will be exposed to adult criminals, who can plant ideas into their minds. When they are released, they might commit more violent crimes because of this. “Research suggests that adolescents squeezed through the adult system are more likely to come out as violent career criminals than similar kids handled on the juvenile side” (Lundstrom “Kids Are Kids- Until They Commit Crimes”). Twelve year old Lionel Tate was convicted to life in prison without parole for the murder of his six year old playmate, Tiffany Eunick. Eunick was brutally beat to death by Tate as he was imitating wrestlers on WWE. However, due to his mental incapabilities, he was released on probation for 30 years. Shortly after, Tate performed armed robbery on a

Most of the time, the system has proven itself to be unsuccessful in dealing with juvenile crimeMost often, the system is unsuccessful. “There are kids who are five times more likely to be raped or otherwise sexually assaulted in adult prisons than in juvenile facilities. The risk of suicide is likewise much higher for juveniles in adult jails.”(How to reduce crime Pg 3). When juveniles are sent to jail, they are still relatively impressionable from people in the prison, and may go back into crime after they’re released, hindering rehabilitation and just creating another violent criminal in the world. The court sentencing the criminal is also at

In addition, think about how they will be affected if tried as an adult and convicted. Let us remember, the United States has the Juvenile Justice System, which is solely for juvenile delinquents. This is supposed to protect them from receiving longer sentences, and harsh punishments, which is the opposite of adult courts. Also, the Juvenile Justice System is supposed to help rehabilitate the juvenile. Luckily, for juveniles, the “court had recognized that even homicide does not warrant a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole if the offender is less than 18 years old at the time of the crime” (Holt p.1395). However, in “Nevada, Mississippi, and Utah, lawmakers now leave it up to the juvenile courts to decide whether to transfer a juvenile to adult court” (Brown p. 21). Unfortunately, juveniles sent to adult prison suffer physically, mentally, and emotionally. With that

Humans all make mistakes, it is a part of life that no one can avoid. However, young adults are more likely than the older generations to make bad decisions and take part in things that they may someday regret. Some people say that making mistakes is just a part of growing up. But what if just one wrong decision could mean the difference between a normal childhood and spending the rest of adolesence behind cold steel bars with cruel and vicious adult criminals? Unfortunately for a growing number of young teenagers, their reality is never being given a second chance to change or correct their mistakes. Why? Some may ask, because instead of attending school, learning the difference

In this society it is easy to dismiss people as crazy, lazy, or violent without knowing a person’s full background. We all come from different walks of the life and we have a tendency to turn a blind eye to that fact. I look at our prison system and see an array of people incarcerated for many different reasons. The background and upbringing of a person plays a vital role in the type of person someone is going be when they grow up. A person who grew up in a home of violence will have to make a decision about their future. The things seen as a child will either cause a person to break mentally or they will have the determination to do better for their family and themselves. In some cases, a person will have to seek help in order to obtain

Therefore they should get the right punishment so that they could learn that their action have consequences. They need to learn that it's not a game or something that they can take back so easily. By giving them less of a punishment for what have done my cause them to reoffend. I fully agree with what a attorney for the juvenile justice committee says in the the article “We need laws that allow for adult prosecution of juvenile offenders when they commit violent crimes”.(347)

Violence is world-wide and happens in many if not all communities on a daily bases. In the case study, the community Prevent Service Task Force was presented with this proposal, “Youth Transfer to Adult Criminal System”. Unfortunately, there is not a happy parent/s who wants to know that their child got caught up into the Criminal Justice System. As the community health nurse, I see this as a Primary intervention because juveniles transferred into an adult criminal system is harmful. According to Nies & McEwin, (2015, p. 551), Inmates are both victims and perpetrators of violence…prison violence includes allegations of physical abuse as well as reports of rape by both corrections officers and inmates. Regardless of the crimes committed adolescents and adults are not in the same category. The reduction of adolescent violence bolstered juvenile transfer policies are detrimental, and should not be allowed, according to the communityguide.org. The primary intervention is to prevent recidivism and this is where Christina, Tracey and I would bend backwards to make sure that this does

Adult prisons are too extreme to have a child of 13 years of age contained in. Also be sentenced for life in prison can destroy a young adult’s mentality that is still going under development. Juveniles that commit crimes should be sent to facilities where there are other of the same age so it wouldn’t be so extreme on them. A way of also handling not having juveniles serve their entire life in prison is putting them in special programs to why they did that in the first place. In that program they can find answers to their rehabilitation so they can clear their confusion and start over with their life. It also not is always the child’s fault because sometimes they can be diagnosed with illness they have or a disorder. It can cause them to act rash and make them have the sensation to kill and destroy.

Many people say that adult prison is too violent for juveniles. Adult prison is filled with violence and many other bad things that juveniles should not be around. According to SPLC (southern poverty law center) juveniles face a lot of danger in adult prison. Many people also argue that juveniles brains aren’t fully developed. Studies have shown that juvenile brains aren’t fully developed until they are 21. Opponents argue some juveniles aren’t taught right from wrong at a young age and grow up to make

Even if a juvenile commits an abusive crime, they need to face the punishments that a line to adult charges simply because whoever they attacked will live with the emotion or physical scarring of the event or they might or they might not live at all following the crime. The value of human safety goes hand in hand with this case because if a juvenile isn’t charged to the maximum, they might just commit the crimes again when they are released therefore, taking away the safety of everyone. Overall, it is detrimental to have a juvenile who commits violent felonies to be treated as an adult in the criminal justice system to ensure that every single human being is

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

A common assumption about young people who commit violent crimes is that they are simply born evil and that nothing good can come of their lives. From this perspective, the only solution is to punish these young offenders by locking them up, either in prison or in a place for teenagers designed to make their lives as miserable as possible. Such an approach suggests that young people who hurt or kill others are untreatable. It also suggests that more prisons must be built to make our communities safe. This assumption, however, is a false one. Research shows that violent young offenders can be treated and reformed. In addition, it shows that when young people fail to receive treatment,it does