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    Essay Children who commit violent crimes should, but shouldn’t be trialed as adults. There should be a spectrum based on several factors. The factors that contribute to the child’s crime, will determine his/her punishment. This new spectrum of factors is the best way to determine how someone should be trialed. The first factors that should contribute to a child’s punishment, are age and the crime. “Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.” - Elizabeth Fry

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    Introduction Juvenile delinquency is a strong predictor of adult criminality. Therefore, professionals aiming to reduce overall crime can benefit by seeking preventative and early intervention methods with troubled youth. This article seeks to address the “psychosocial and psychopathological risk factors as predictors of adult criminal outcomes” (Aebi et al., 2013). The design of the study replicates an older longitudinal study performed by Zurich Adolescent Psychology and Psychopathological Study

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    If we do not try juveniles in adult court for serious crimes, what is the alternative? We need to have a building just for juveniles tried as adults. If juveniles who commit serious crimes do not get tried in adult court they won't completely understand the consequences of their actions. Juveniles should be punished like adults are for serious crimes. If we have a building just for juveniles who commit a serious crime and are not tried as adults, they can still get a longer sentence than if they

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    committing violent crimes, the question of whether they should be tried as adults has arisen. Children as young as 13 or 14 are committing violent crimes such as murder, rape, and armed robbery. Some of these children are being tried as adults while others are being tried as juveniles and receiving milder punishments. A juvenile offender may receive a few years in a juvenile detention facility and possibly probation following his release at age eighteen. An adult committing the same violent crime will receive

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    juvenile code. However, in numerous cases, juveniles are transferred to adult court when juvenile courts waive or relinquish jurisdiction. Adolescents should not be tried in the adult court system or sentenced to adult penitentiary's on account of: teen brains are not mature which causes a lack of understanding towards the system, incarceration in an adult facility increases juvenile crime, and children that are sentenced to adult prison are vulnerable to abuse and rape. American Psychological Association

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    execute such a heinous crime and end up deciding where they are going to spend their time for doing the crime.  Should teens and children be charged as a crime seen as an adult crime.  The reasoning of having a juvenile system is for young folks that commit crime that may not get away with a long detention and just get away with twenty five years.  I bare with the situation of the crime committed, but the case of committing murder I do believe they should be sentence with an adult crime. With first degree

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    Juvenile should not be convicted as adults for violent crimes because juveniles lose brain cells and connections that are responsible for controlling impulses, risk taking, and self control. taking a child and putting them in a prison or jail can mess with their mental state and they will get so accustomed to that sort of environment that they will feel insecure and end up committing another crime just to get back to the comforts of a prison cell because they feel like an outcast. Some teens suffer

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    If we do not try juveniles in adult court for serious crimes, what is the alternative? We can't try juveniles in adult court or house these juveniles with adults. We can't hang juveniles. If a 17 year old boy committed murder and we couldn't try him as an adult because he is still under age. Therefore he would only have to be in a juvenile home until he turns 18. People play the system like that all the time because they know they can get away with it without consequences. What we can do is try

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    fuss in the criminal justice system when juveniles commit an adult crime. Do they get off and get sent to Juvie? Or are they tried as an adult? How serious was the crime? Did they know what they were doing or how bad the consequences will be? In order to be charged as an adult for a serious crime, I think, they would have to fully understand what they did. They might not have understood fully, or at all, what the consequences of their crime was, but they knew what they were doing. In the 1st line of

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    society most crimes are committed by juveniles. Many of these young offenders tend to not learn from their mistakes the first time which leads to more crime in America. If juveniles were tried as adults, it would lower the crime rate in America. . The justice department estimates that about 10% of all homicides are committed by people under the age of 18 (Clarke, 2015). However, an argument could be made that transfer laws are increasing the total average of juveniles committing crimes in general

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