Children Who Commit Violent Crimes

One side argues that regardless of the age, crimes are still crimes. Just because a child commits the crime doesn’t mean that the victim didn 't indeed suffer from it. Juveniles should be tried as adults because it will not only make

When the United States was first established as an independent country, there was no such thing as “family court” or even the juvenile justice system. Therefore everybody was charged and treated as adults if a crime were committed, and juvenile offenders were always sent to adult

Too many minors have committed violent crimes and haven’t gotten the consequences they deserved. In Time magazine article, “Children without Pity” written by Nancy Traver, it shows how the crime rates are going up and many minors aren’t getting the consequence they need. Given the violence of their actions, minors who commit violent crimes should be tried as adults.

First, I believe that juveniles should not be tried as adults because their mentalities are not fully developed.

Nothing should be done with the young children of violence-prone criminals because they had no say so in being conceived. If research could prove that the tendency to commit crime is inherited, then the criminal parent(s) should be required to take some sort of birth control. It would be an invasion of privacy to monitor the children’s behavior at any early age. Besides, Siegel (2016) states, ”Why would these killers, most of whom at one time had attended college, gone out on date, and had friendships…People who knew them claimed they seemed to have gone through a significant personality change just before the murders took place” (p. 127). This quote provides evidence that not all criminals begin at a young age, so why keep an eye on them when

Many have discussed and argued if Juveniles should be charged as adults. Then there's others that believe that they shouldn't be charged as adults. However, juveniles should be tried as adults because they committed a crime in which they must pay for which they also knew it is wrong. They should be tried should depend on what age they are and what fractions have they encountered like rape, abuse, etc. If a 5 year old were to be playing with another kid and perhaps that 5 year old kills the child they have absolutely no idea of what they have done they are far too young to understand what they are doing or have done. Most of the time you have to take care of children because they are putting items in their mouth that they don’t know what it

The U.S made legal history in 1989 when the world’s first juvenile court opened in Chicago (Rank, J.) Since 1990 many states have also adopted the “get tough” approach to juvenile justice as a response to the increasingly violent crimes committed by children.

The juvenile court system was established in the United States over more than a century ago, with the first court appearing in Illinois in 1899. Prior to that time, children and youth were seen as small adults with that the youth were tried and punished as adults.

Today’s juvenile court system handles most cases involving those under the age of 18-year-old. This was not always the case and the ideal of a separate court system for adults and children is only about 100 years old. When looking at the differences that set juvenile courts apart, it is important to study the history and see how it developed over time.

Illinois was the first state to have a separate court system for juveniles. The court act stated that a person under the age of 16 was considered a minor. It also meant that when they would do something bad, they would be delinquents, not criminals. Being a delinquent is nowhere near as bad as being a criminal, so it would not follow them around all of their lives. From there, the delinquent had their own court of law.

According to Schiraldi and Drizin (1999), the first juvenile court in the United States was founded in Chicago in 1899 after a young lawyer named John Altgeld toured the House of Corrections and found hundreds of children as young as 8 years old jailed with adults. The Cook County Juvenile Court was created to rehabilitate instead of punishing the offenders under 16 years of age. In other words, for the juvenile court judges to treat rather than to punish juveniles placing attention on the offender instead of the offense. Most importantly, for the children to receive a second chance and keep them away from the adults in jails. Certainly, “jails and prisons clearly were no places for children” (Bartollas & Miller, 2017, p.5).

Many serious crimes are committed daily and some by juveniles under 18. When serious crimes are committed these juveniles get tried as adults and receive adult sentencings. Many people argue that such juveniles should not be tried as adults because they are just kids and are still developing. In my opinion, I agree that juveniles should not be tried as adults, however I also believe they should receive adult sentencings but to a lesser degree, because they are not yet fully developed, they have potential to change, and it is not fair that they are underage but are being tried as adults.

Kids should be tried as adults because by the time they’re 12 they know that murder is wrong. A 15-year-old stabbed to death a minimart clerk (Lundstrom). He claimed he was just copying a show he saw on t.v (Lundstrom). This shows that kids know when they did something wrong and they try to blame it on things that don’t really make sense. There was another case involving two 16-year-old girls who killed a 15-year-old girl (Sutton). They

Most reform schools failed to changed problematic behaviors of youths. But the more wealthy and influential families in Chicago sought to do something about this problem to gain the loyalty of the poor families. These families feared doing nothing will only bring social unrest which will ultimately undermine their authority. From this, reformers such as Julia Lathrop, Jane Adams, and Lucy Flower emerged to push a juvenile justice system. The injustice of the current court system was that children charged with a crime during this period were put on trial on the same platform as adults. Through the efforts by these reformers, the first juvenile court law in the US separating youths and adults was established. The Illinois law, passed in 1899 established a juvenile court that would hear cases of delinquency, dependency, and neglect of youths. The court had the power to place children in orphanages or foster home, place them on probation, or to institutionalize them. The juvenile court idea soon spread to ten other states within the next ten years.

In the early nineteenth century juveniles were treated the same as adults when it came to the legal system. We did not have separate courts or jails for juveniles and they would often receive the same punishments as adults that had committed crimes. “At the beginning of the