Argumentative Essay On Juvenile Crime

At this time an estimated of 200,000 youth are sentenced, tried or incarcerated as adults every year across the United States, and nearly 10,000 youth is detained or incarcerated in adult jails and prisons. Some studies show that juveniles who are held in adult facilities are 38 times more likely to commit suicide and are at the risk of being sexual victimized. Do we really want that to happen in our prisons? And, if they are sexually victimize what makes us think that they won’t do it to others? In 2008, the Juvenile Department found that transferring young offenders to the adult criminal justice system does not protect the community and markedly increases the likelihood that young offenders will reoffend. (U.S. Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014).
The harshness of crime has ranged from little things as running a red light all the way to cold blooded murder. Some research shows that crime rates have been on the rise in the previous years, especially juvenile crime. In other words, other solutions should be presented to the state? In fact, we have to ask ourselves this question, do we really want juveniles to be sent to prison when we know that prisons are already overcrowded? This increase in juvenile crime has bumped into a major chord of distress in many people. Driven by this distress our society has to come up with a solution to this imminent problem. Meanwhile a number of suggestions have been offered, crime prevention is the most effective, logical and advantageous solution. There are several reasons why juvenile crime has been on the rise, and the most noticeable ones are; lack of education, the increased use and obtainability of weapons and the intensification in the use and availability of