When speaking about the age of responsibility, there isn’t a milestone birthday to determine whether someone is responsible enough to perform the responsibilities into adulthood. In some cultures, rites are what determine the responsibility one can manage, to all states, age is the key to true adulthood. These traditions can be seen or found in many cultural events, such as Quinceaneras. Identifying the age of responsibility by law, shows how the bombardment of our rights add up from juveniles, to adults, at the age of 18. But the question is, what if people under the age limit of 18 earn the same rights at an earlier age of maturity? There are many ways this can be proven, for example, neuroscientists. This would be …show more content…
Furthermore, the article, What is the Age of Responsibility?, by Alan Greenblatt, will contain research as to the depth our rights, traditional rites, and the proper age when one can handle …show more content…
Being able to handle juveniles that are under age of 18, is said that, “In the early 20th century, every state created stand-alone legal systems for handling juveniles, defined as those under 18.” (Paragraph 16). The purpose for having a juvenile system is to protect the under age from getting influenced by the environmental surroundings of more experienced criminals, created as a “sheltering wise parent”. By this, the youngster who is guilty by criminal law should be questioned as to how they lived at home, the problems they were having, and what their intentions were to inflict upon this criminal act. There are many other more juvenile systems such as the one said in the article Juvenile Justice, “The Division of Juvenile Justice provides education and treatment to California’s youthful offenders up to the age of 25 who have the most serious criminal backgrounds and most intense treatment needs.” Getting the help a youth needs would be the best way to introduce to them how severe acts aren’t the only way to solve a problem, but to talk it through by showing them how to be more responsible, and guide them to do just that, step by step. The people who have the most intense backgrounds could also depend on the parents, such as child abuse, alcoholics, or being involved in gangs, which is why juveniles tend to take it out on murderous crimes, or doing such cruel and