Juvenile Justice Argumentative Essay

Juvenile justice has been a completely controversial topic that has been talked about for ages. We asked ourselves if it’s righteous of us to send juveniles to jail for their crimes but all we get in return is a big question mark. Should we punish these teens for their crime or should we figure out a solution to help? We need to do something because sending them to jail is not going to help anyone. We are basically sending them to their death. We need to refine the court system and help these teens make a change in their life. We punish juveniles who have committed crimes such as murder by sending them to jail. Of course we all know that murder is a horrible thing to commit but we also need to consider the situation that they are in. What I mean by situation is what caused them to act this way. Did it had something to do with how they were raised, taught, or influenced. In “Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life Sentence,” Gail Garinger stated, ”An overwhelming majority of young offenders grow out of crime. But impossible to predict which one of these youngsters to fall into the small majority to commit crime”(Page 2). They could have lived in a life of crime due to their neighborhood or even their
Do they have a say in the matter? Of course they do because they’re the ones who are affected the most. In “On Punishment and Teen Killers,” Jennifer Jenkins explained her situation about how her sister was killed in these teen murders. She also said,” there are no words adequate to describe what this kind of traumatic loss does to a victim’s family…..Some never recover”(Page 25). It’s reasonable to try to get retribution for their fallen family member but they don’t have the power to outright send them to jail. That decision lies to the court system, to either send them to rehabilitation or jail. So even if these families are emotionally devastated they need to know that not everyone can gain that