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Juvenile Incarceration Thesis

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Juveniles come with different personalities and backgrounds. What works for one adolescent might not work for another. The conservative idea of strict justice, incarceration, has a valid benefit; the stricter the punishment, the more likely they are to deter from crime. However, in most juvenile courts, they are tried as adults. It’s a given fact that juveniles don’t have the rationality and cognition of an adult. It is definitely unfair for the adolescent to be tried as an adult for an event they most likely won’t remember or comprehend. Juvenile incarceration doesn’t instill the discipline that juveniles need to understand their actions and rationalize why such behavior is inappropriate; they are more likely to “engage in repeated criminal

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