Why Is It Wrong To Judge Adults

Michele Deith said “Children brains are still under developed, then why tired them as an adult in court”. A child being tried as an adult effect their lives in many ways. The message of loss hope builds up in their minds prompting the idea that they can’t make mistakes. Because they fear they will always be tired unfairly. Also, being in prison for a life time for an ignorant mistake will make them more likely to commit more crimes. Crime records as a juvenile holds less than an adult record. Majority of juvenile cases are only classified as minor offensives. While, some cases may be different because of the crime, children should still be recognized for learning and should be held responsible however, not on an adult level.

The question of whether or not juveniles have the knowledge or maturity to waive or exercise their rights comes to be very controversial in situations of juvenile interrogations. There is a discrepancy between whether juveniles should be responsible enough to exercise their rights or if they are immature, vulnerable, and all together incapable of understanding the rights they are granted. Many people believe that juveniles should have a parent present during interrogations to guide them through their rights while others believe that juveniles who commit crimes should be held equally as responsible for their actions as adults.

How are juveniles that commit serious crimes seen in your eyes? People commit crimes everyday, although not everybody takes responsibility for their actions, instead they might flee or remain hidden for the rest of their lives. For example, teens who might have been caught distributing illegal substances into other countries will face severe consequences in adult court. Juveniles that break the same laws as adults should be tried as adults. Juveniles not only should be tried, but held accountable for committing serious felonies such as murder and rape, because a crime is a crime

Juveniles should be considered as adults at courts because they need to learn from their mistakes, they are old enough to know what they do, and they have to be considered as adults on how bad the crime was at court. Juveniles should be considered as adults so they can learn about what they did wrong.

The debate on whether or not to try a child as an adult has been raging for many years. Today’s society needs to be cautious with the way they handle juvenile criminals. Our prison system is already busting at the seams with blood-thirsty criminals. Tossing a twelve year old in a prison system designed for adults is dangerous. A chance for rehabilitation should be afforded to every juvenile offender. However, not all juveniles can be rehabilitated and we owe it to the victims, and their families, to ensure that justice prevails. Juvenile offenders should not be prosecuted as adults, unless extenuating circumstances exist that prevents them from being rehabilitated.

In the case of Roper v. Simmons, Simmons was a seventeen-year-old teenager who committed a grotesque premeditated murder (Cornell University Law School, 2005). Subsequently, nine months after the murder Simmons turned eighteen, and the state of Missouri prosecuted Simmons as an adult, and he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death (Cornell University Law School, 2005). From the police reports and testimony, it was apparent Simmons was the instigator of the crime, but the Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that capital punishment is unconstitutional for offenders under the age of eighteen (Elrod & Ryder, 2014). Furthermore, the Supreme Court ruling inhibits the courts from prosecuting juveniles as adults without considering age and other

Juveniles should be tried as adults no matter the crime. Should juveniles be tried as adults is a question asked by most people, Being a juvenile is referring to someone who is young. Juveniles should be tried as adults because they want to act like they know everything, juveniles should be able to know what is right and what is wrong, juveniles should be able to make wise decisions and juveniles should not be tried as adults because they have a whole child hood ahead of them.

Minors should not be tried as adults if accused of serious crimes because their brains are not fully developed, and sometimes kids do not know right from wrong. Some people might argue this statement, but put it this way; when you were nine years old, did you learn about serious crimes and punishments? Most likely not. Children that are young don’t know the consequences to their actions. One reason that children shouldn’t be tried as an adult is that sometimes society gets falsely influenced by movies or games that are only meant for adults.

Juvenile justice is a huge topic with many opinions, but juveniles should be tried as adults. If juveniles are tried as adults the crime world be better and make the United States better. Juveniles and adults have equal consquicences for crimes, it can change the life of the juveniles, and it will be safer for the community.

Should children be tried as adults? Children should be tried based on the crime that they committed. If someone underage kills a person, commits grand larceny, homicide, or something worse, than they should be tried as adults. If an under aged person does something that was an accident or a small offence then they shouldn't be tried as adults, this would have to work on a case by case basis. There are several court cases where a child was tried as an adult and it goes against the eighth amendment because that is cruel and unusual punishment.

Younger people have tended to look towards the elderly for wisdom and guidance since the beginning of recorded history and beyond. Students to teachers, children to parents, ordinary people to royalty and politicians – generally those who have lived longer are not only believed, but expected to have garnered more knowledge in their longer lives. Abraham Lincoln once said, “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Also, in 2008 the Australian newspaper published an article detailing a study undertaken by the University of Aarhus in Denmark, which disproved the theory that the mind is at its peak in the late teens to mid-twenties. But all this is not to say that older people should not sometimes listen

Often times in life, young children make horrible mistakes and are punished for their crimes. Should these young children be considered criminals if they make a mistake? Is it fair to say that when a child makes a mistake, they should get the second chance they deserve? There is no denying that everyone makes mistakes, especially if they are too young to know what is right and what is wrong. Research have shown “as many as 25 percent of all juvenile offenders younger than eighteen are now prosecuted in adult court” (Hodgdon).

The ongoing argument on juvenile teens that kill should be tried as an adult. Yes, I think teens who have committed such a horrendous crime like killing someone should be tried as an adult. If you have committed a crime you should be punished, but there are different types of crimes like if you were caught with drugs or stealing then it would be less harsh charges. There are plenty of reasons people don’t want them charged because they think they are kids, not some who broke the law, but these are people who have killed someone. If they are doing adult type crimes they are as dangerous as an adult offender.

    Teens deserve to be tried as adults if they are going to commit violent crimes. There are around 1,300 cases of teens murdering the United States. JLWOP means juvenile life without parole, a sentence many of these teens serve. Teens should be tried as adults because although they are young, their crimes are still gruesome; they know what they are doing is wrong, and their brains are not an excuse for their behavior.

Cognitive aging is commonly labeled strictly as memory and only found in “some people”. However, this is not true. The knowledge of cognitive aging has grown immensely, but there is still much to be learned. The surface has only been scratched with many more questions to be answered. Cognitive aging is worthy of study and effects everyone, but there is also much more is still to be learned.