Explain Why Juvenile Delinquents Should Not Be Tried The Same Way As Adults

Juveniles should not be tried the same way as adults are for the crimes they commit to a certain degree. For many kids being a juvenile delinquent isn’t even entirely their fault. Juveniles also just aren’t at the right mindset to be going to prisons at young ages. There are other courses of action that can be taken to help the troubled child out other then locking them up like adults. A juvenile is a child under the age of 18 but in some states the maximum age is 16 (find law), a juvenile delinquent is a child who has committed crime/s many juvenile delinquents commit crimes because, that’s just how they were taught. Children living in bad parts of a city or state will be subjected to more illegal things than kids growing up in better neighborhoods. Because, the law is looked at allot closer in the good cities where it isn’t so harsh. Because of this juveniles are becoming delinquents to “fit in with the crowd” they don’t want to be an outcast because there
A juvenile does not belong behind bars with serious criminals because they are being subjected to more harmful things whilst in prison. Many prisons are not broken up into sections of severity like in the TV shows and what not, instead they are all together. You could have a rapist and someone who got caught selling a little pot in the same cell. That’s pretty crazy once you throw a juvenile in prison. Inmates in prisons are really dangerous too. If you make someone in prison who has a life sentence mad, they’re going to come back at you. A murder to them doesn’t seem like anything because they already are going to be in the prison for the rest of their lives so why does it matter.(Robert Evans, Cedric Colemen) If a juvenile gets stabbed to death in a prison or killed that just brings up an investigation for the prison and often times no one speaks because of fear then the prison ends up getting sued for nothing being done about the