Equal Punishments For Juveniles And Adults

In What Ways Can Young Offenders Be Treated A person who commits murder, theft, robbery, physical abuse should always be equal in the viewpoint of the law, no matter it is a youngster or an adult. There should be equal punishments for the juveniles and the adults because the wrong that they have done has lead to the breaking of the law and ethics. Therefore, there are a number of ways in which the young criminals can be punished like imprisonment, labor imprisonment, strict fines on them, they should be send to custodians and rehabilitation centers. Nevertheless, the degree of the methods of punishment can be a bit lenient for the people under the age of eighteen, but the method should remain the same as of adults to let them realize that
they are charged for the unethical actions they have performed while breaking the laws of the society (Ridgeway, 2014).
Conclusion
Crime is a crime either it is done by adults or children and for this reason there should be no leniency and relaxation for the youngsters. In order to reduce the crime rates in a country the children should be treated harshly to prevent future crimes and in this way they will realize that what they have done is highly prohibited. The restrict laws in the Juvenile court system may help the society to recover from the fear of criminals because the criminals develop their habit of breaking the laws of the society since childhood. Only in rare cases, a person turned into an offender when he or she is grown up. Hence, in order to make the youth learn a lesson, hard approaches is the correct method to deal with such people as this will teach them a lesson that they can never forget in their lives. The ways of treating the young offenders with soft approaches make them more mulish and heartless and this can lead to further criminal activities in the society or in the country.