Children are not mature and sometimes are unaware of the consequences that have taken place due to their actions. Taking someone’s life can be very dangerous, but if you are young enough to commit an adult crime then you should be charged as an adult as well.
Teenagers should be tried as adults for the violent crimes that they commit. In today’s generation, there are a lot of crimes taking place. Adults aren’t the only ones that are committing the crimes, teenagers are as well. If you are old enough to do the crime, you are old enough to do the time. Juveniles should be responsible for their own actions and they should be held accountable for the decisions they make. Juveniles do violent things and don’t think twice about the
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Being incarcerated gives them a chance to grow as a person and mature. They are a danger to the environment. They can’t be trusted under any circumstances.It teaches them a life lesson. Years from the mistakes that they have made they will start to think before they do things. If an adult committed the same crime as a teenager, the teenager would get fewer years in jail just because of their age and that is unfair. Everyone should have an equal punishment. For example, a teenage boy was arrested for a fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man. On Friday morning 10:00 a.m. He took the life of Thomas Villanueva. The police received a description of the suspect riding a 4-wheeler leaving the scene. They stopped a 4-wheeler near the scene operated by 16-year-old Jonathan Moreno and took him into custody without incident. The 16-year-old, Jonathan Moreno was in custody and was tried as an adult for capital murder and abuse of the corpse. Jonathan Moreno took an innocent man’s life. Anisha Walker was known as a convicted murderer at just 14 years old. In prison, she was known as “Little Baby“ when she arrived. She grew up with multiple ages of women and some were twice her age. Walker was considered a murderer, even though she was a child at the time. She took responsibility for what she did. She shot a Nigerian immigrant Pedro Enemku in the head after selling him crack cocaine at an Arlington apartment complex. This is what she had
Kenzie Houk had everything going for her. She was twenty-six, engaged to the love of her life, and was eight-and-a-half months pregnant. In the late winter of 2009, her four-year-old daughter waddled in her bedroom, hoping to surprise her mommy with a good morning smile. Instead, she found her mother with a bullet through her head. Eleven-year-old Jordan Brown, the soon-to-be stepson of Kenzie Houk, was arrested and charged with homicide, pulling the trigger before he went to school. There were two counts of homicide, one for Kenzie Houk and the other for her baby. Brown was tried in juvenile court and sentenced to a residential treatment facility until the age of twenty-one. To Kenzie Houk’s family, Brown’s sentence would never live up to that her four-year-old and seven-year old daughters would have to serve. “The day Kenzie was murdered, the whole family was served with a life sentence,” said Debbie Houk, the victim’s mother. “[Her daughters] are serving life right now. They are never going to see their mom” (Chen). Serious juvenile crimes, similar to this, cannot be properly justified in the juvenile justice system. Juveniles should be tried in the adult criminal court system for serious crimes because of the lack of severity in the juvenile court system, increased youth crime and recidivism rates, and the mental maturity of juvenile offenders.
Juveniles should be tried as adults because they only serve a few years in prison for doing harsh things. Manuel Sanchez and John Duncan committed a bloody murder by shooting a man several times in the chest, and John and Manuel were only twelve years old at the time. For example, “ It was a brutal, callous, bloody murder. But what is even more shocking to people in the small Washington town of Wenatchee is that John Duncan and Manuel Sanchez are only twelve years old.” I found this information in the article “ Rethinking Juvenile Justice” ( John, 1). Instead of the boys
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.
18 Nov. 2015. This article speaks on why most juveniles should be tried as adults. Showing that when teens commit murder they receive less of a sentence than if an adult were to commit the same murder as the teen, the adult would most likely get a more time than a teen. The article show that New York has reduced their age to try juveniles as adults from the 16 to 13 years old.
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
In adult prisons, children who are underage are more likely to be sexually harassed and be raped and beat by not only the other cell mates but the staff members too. Children who are underage are more likely to follow the crowd and to be tempted to do the stuff that other people are doing. If children who are underage are placed in adult jails they lack education and also have a hard time learning the right way out and the right way to do things in life. Children who are under a certain age do not fully understand their consequences for their actions. Children who are under a certain age also are more vulnerable to peer pressure.
When it comes to trying teens in court as adults some say stop trying them as adults and try them as juveniles, others say they must be tried as adults when they commit adult crimes or harmful, heinous crimes. Many people do not think there is such thing as an “Adult Crime.” A Crime is a crime no matter who it is committed by teens or children should be held accountable for their actions and tried as adults. If I knew
Teens should be tried as adults when it comes to adult crimes. They should get punish on what they have done because it wouldn't be fair to the victim's family. The bigger the crime the eager the family is to call them
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.
There are many controversies that surround juveniles being rehabilitated rather than going through the adult justice system, but studies show that juveniles are not fully developed to be tried as an adult. One of the main questions that it always boils down to is “should juveniles be tried as adults?” in my opinion juveniles should not be tried as adults because of their age.
“I Believe In Justice, and I Believe In People Being Held Responsible For Their Actions”-Bruce Willis. The quote means no matter what their age is they are responsible for their crimes big or small. With that being said juveniles should be convicted as adults for violent crimes because many understand what they are doing even though they are “just kids”. Also because there's no such things as adult crimes just adult criminals. Some violent crimes are assault, murder, sexual assault, etc. Many juveniles have committed these crimes.
When teens are tried they are either tried as juvenile or adults. If they are tried as minors then they go to a juvenile facility to get the help they need and go to school. Some teenagers are tried as adults and go directly to adult prisons just as any other person over eighteen would, however kids are not subject to the death penalty. Some kids may commit these crimes because they have undeveloped brains or mental issues ( Thompson 89). People are released from prison after short amounts of time because they committed a terrible crime as a minor instead of an adult. Most of these former criminals will repeat their actions putting our society at risk of assault, rape, or even murder. When someone commits a crime, and the crime is truly immoral and should deserve to pay the consequences no matter what their age is. Teens should be held accountable for their actions and tried as adults for heinous crimes they commit.
If a juvenile, over fourteen has the ability and willingness to commit a violent crime they should be tried and punished as an adult. A fourteen year old knows right from wrong. He (or she) is able to tell whether they are committing a crime. If a juvenile is mature enough to commit an adult crime, they should be treated as an adult, and punished justly according to the adult law. The difference in age in two people should not determine their punishment if they have committed the same crime under the same or similar pretenses.
Juveniles can be tried as adults for crimes ranging from kidnapping, murder, rape, arson, robbery, torture, assault, and more. Some of the cases that are sent to adult court are petty crimes, such as: underage drinking, possession of a controlled substance, and other minor crimes. The question is whether they should be tried as adults. These are all adult actions, on one hand, and may lead a person to wonder what brought a child to commit these crimes. One might further inspect that if a child or teenager is engaged in so-called “adult” activities, what kind of activities might a child choose to be involved in adulthood? What is the child’s background? Can you blame the child of a heroin addict for having access to drugs at a young age? Can you blame the child of a murderer for acting out? Yes, everyone has a choice even a child.
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