A Ted Talk By Susan Blakemore

A Child Is Not An Adult Many teens are being treated as children other words “under age” until they do a crime then they will say charged them an adult when it should not be like that. Teens now and days do many different types of drugs, hang out with bad influence, do not think straight, and most of all they are maturing to become adults soon. When children commit a crime is so hard to even believe they had that mentality but in many ways there is facts to why they should not be tried as an adult even though the crime is cruel. If they are going to be treated like an adult when it comes to commit a crime why not all the time mine as well.

When a child commits a crime it’s very essential to take the best decision because that decision will impact them the rest of their life. In a TED talk by Sarah Jayne Blakemore she uses charts and explains by color how the brain of a teenager changes throughout the years. Blakemore also says that teenagers do something at a current moment and at the next they forget it. The TED talk of Blakemore indicates how teenage brains are not as developed as an adult who would know what is going on. When a teenager commits a crime it is most common that the teen did not know what he/she was doing when committing such a thing. Blakemore also does an experiment with the a model of a teenage brain and how it develops over the years and it came to the conclusion that teens are risk-takers and do not think on the consequences of the action they are about to do or will do. When
If a child does a certain crime the child should not be tried as an adult because of the simple reason that their brains are still not as developed as an adult to think straight and know what their doing. So coming to the conclusion children should not be sentenced as an adult because they are not as grown as an adult to be charged like