Juvenile Delinquents Should Be Absolved

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.

Many people believe that kids are kids until they commit violent crimes. Juveniles who commit violent crimes were tried as adults and had equal punishment, the number of violent crimes committed by youths would decline. Individuals who commit a crime do not think about the consequences they have to face. They are well aware of their surroundings and the actions they chose. Nehemiah Griego a fifteen year old who killed his parent and three younger siblings was sentenced as a juveniles and released from state custody by the time he turns twenty one (Article, p.1).

Although these juveniles are seen in the eyes of many as children, we cannot excuse the fact that they have committed crimes such as murder, assault, or burglary. We cannot dismiss the seriousness of these crime due to the age of the criminal, so for that reason they need to be retributed. Juveniles who commit offences need to be kept away from society and in capitated from hurting others. Within the time of each juveniles sentence they should better themselves and learn not to make the same mistakes again. That is why we have certain juveniles systems in order., so that we can make a safer society for

Think about Jordan Brown, 11 years old, found guilty of killing his father’s fiancee, Kenzie, who was eight and a half months pregnant, before school while she was asleep. He received 10 years in juvenile prison but was given an adult sentence.Although the judge was serving justice for Kenzie he was right to give him time in prison, but I disagree with the sentencing time. Flowpsychology.com says “Crimes that are on your juvenile records hold much less weight in the world than those on your adult record. By putting a juvenile into adult court, you are also affecting their adult criminal record”.Now Jordan will have a criminal record because he’ll get out of jail when he is 21 years old meaning hell half less than half a chance of getting a job. Instead of them sentencing him to 10 years he could've did 3 at the most so that by the time he is a preteen he has experienced enough to show him this isn't the life he wants or while in jail he was given a person therapist to talk about that day and try to touch base with him. 10 years later he's probably lost all hope and feel like all he needed was someone to talk

Around 250,000 youth are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults in the United States every year. On any given day around 10,000 juveniles are housed in adult jails and prisons. Of the juveniles held in adult jails, most of them are awaiting trial, as 39 states are required that youth charged as adults be held in an adult jail before they are tried. Though as many as a half of them will not be convicted or will be sent back to juvenile justice systems, most will have spent at least one month in adult jail, and one in five of them will have spent over six months there. The juveniles held in adult prisons have been convicted as adults; the laws and standards of this practice vary widely by state.

There are articles or news reports every once and a while about juveniles committed heinous crimes, but not serving any real time for the crime. Juveniles or even adults should not serve a few years for murder or rape. Murderers, rapists and other criminals are being released from jail every day after serving only very short sentences for their heinous crimes. (Source #1) Who are these criminals and what makes them so special? The criminals are juveniles who commit these awful adult crimes. Juveniles are being tried every day in juvenile courts and are receiving shortened sentences, and they are being released and given new identities to continue to live in peace. All while their victims and their families are left to suffer forever. Because the juvenile rights and courts believe that second chances should be given to youth that commit crimes. In my opinion that is half-true, if it is a minor crime then yes. If the crime is very serious or heinous or harmful. They should not get a second chance and be tried fairly as adults.

Juveniles can be sentenced for periods of time so long it usually prohibits them from many things they could or hoped to accomplish in their lifetime, such as getting married, having children , possibly joining the military, etc. “The determination whether a young person is prosecuted in juvenile court or in the adult criminal court is at its core a question about punishment” ( Vaughan 1 ). Young juveniles could have possibly just been in the wrong place at the wrong time when a crime is committed so therefore they could end up being punished as an adult if the court decides that. Kids that are associated to a crime and put in jail sometimes should maybe be given a second chance or have their part in the case looked at differently depending on the role they played in the crime that was

In the article,”Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life Sentences” Garinger says,”These children were told that they could never change and that no one cared what became of them”. It’s not right for someone as young as 15 years old to live the rest of his/her life behind bars without the chance of ever changing and becoming something better in life. I’m not saying that the child will always change, there will be some cases where a teenage killer will still be a killer when that person becomes an adult but for the most part, they usually change. They don’t want to be sent back to prison to rot there with no one to care for them for the rest of their lives, they want to live and become something bigger in life than just another person who made a bad choice and now has to pay for

This question has caused a number of debates between scholars, law makers, psychiatrists and laypeople. When the juvenile justice system was created over a hundred years ago, it was because the lawmakers at the time decided that children should not be tried as adults because their lack of maturity meant that they should not be held to the same standards as adults (The National Academies Press, n.d.). This meant that children under the age of 12 were unlikely to be charged with a crime as they were seen not to be accountable for their actions. However, as the number of crimes that juveniles were committing along with their severity increased, it became necessary for the courts and lawmakers to institute stricter punishments for juvenile offenders. The problem with sentencing children as adults is that they will not be rehabilitated.

Criminals are on foot everyday around the United States and other parts of the world. Whether they are young children, adults, seniors, or any kind of human being, crimes are committed everyday by people who look like a bad influence or others that look innocent walking down the streets who have never committed a crime before. Juveniles ages 7-15 should not be sentenced to life without parole for crimes they commit because it would not be fair for them to spend the rest of their lives in jail for committing a mistake. Reasons can be found on why juveniles should be left inside a cell and arguments can build up if people disagree with one another. Some adults commit crimes and are left with freedom after a satisfied amount of time locked up. Young teenagers can still be immature and do not have the mind to think like a regular human being. Young people also do not know what is wrong or right to do since they are not of legal age. Some teenagers are also not fully educated yet for they might have grown up without parents to yell at them to lead them through the right path. Most juveniles are barely in middle school and have not really learned anything about the real outside life yet. Juveniles that are sentenced for a reasonable amount of time can also be rehabilitated once they are out of prison so they can be leaded to the right path again without having to be locked up. Many young men are in rehabilitation centers because they disobey their parents or because they are drug

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

In day’s society, there is a lot of debate and discussion on whether or not Juveniles should be sentenced to life in prison. Take in consideration that were talking about kids as young as like 6 years old. People talk about whether it’s right or not in other country’s they even banned the death penalty. Different people believe in different things. For example a group of people believe that juveniles should be sentenced to life in jail if they commit a heinous crime. Then there are people that believe that the juveniles should not be sentenced to life in prison. I personally belief that Juveniles or young adults should be sentenced to life in prison if they did commit a heinous crime.

There are a lot of people out there who commit crimes, people of different race and age. I agree that at whatever age that the crime is committed that the punishment should be the same for every criminal. Everyone has different opinions on whether juveniles or teens should be sent to adult prison and my opinion is that they should be sent to adult prison. I have my reasons for saying this. When adults commit a crime they know what they are doing, they know what they are getting themselves into, and they know what possible punishment they could get.

It is my opinion that youthful offenders should not be sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) because according the APA the adolescent brain is not fully developed making them less culpable for their crimes; as their brains are still developing into late adolescence this poses two potential ways to differentiate them from their adult counterparts (a) it is difficult to predict recidivism as their brains are growing and changing, this makes “recidivism the exception not the rule” and (b) as their brains do develop they may be more amenable to treatment. Finally, while research is limited, there are some notable findings within case law in regards to how the traditional considerations for sentencing (deterrence, retribution, incarceration,

Murderers, rapists, and other criminals are being released from jail every day after serving only extremely short sentences. These criminals are given special treatment because they are delinquents. Some are given new identities and are allowed to live their lives in peaceful bliss, all while the victims and their families are left to suffer forever. With courts and juvenile rights advocates believing that these delinquents deserve second chances, they are allowing criminals to walk the streets, live as our neighbors, and in many instances, commit additional crimes. While some disagree that juvenile offenders should be tried as adults, there should not be any special privileges for the atrocious crimes they commit, because they may think they