3/28/2011
Sociology 101 Juveniles deserve a second chance at succeeding. The people have to remember that the children need our help and get them focus in positive things and give them the right guidance they need to succeed. There is various ways that a kid can get back on the right path, counseling, after school programs, rehabilitation, and, a positive role model. Each of these things have they own way to get the child involved.
Counseling could also help the child and other people around them understand what was going on in their life to make them the way they are and figure out the root of the problem. However, this is going to be a difficult task to accomplish, getting the child to open up to the counselor and talking about their problems and childhood, the counselor has to inform the child that they are there to listen and help them and not to be afraid. They need a positive role model in …show more content…
The only choice they have it to either redefine the offense to much lesser one or redefine as not being a child. Children are considered to have different competencies from adults and furthermore they have different potential to change their behavior compared to adults and that is why they need to be tried separately”. Putting these kids in adult prison with these hardcore criminals would be super dangerous, these kids could be sexual abused or anything worse. These kids are not just getting a cell mate they are getting a person that they can look up too, and that is not good they could get back out in the world and commit a serious crime because of their cell mate that they had in adult prison. Children have time to grow and learn right from wrong and it is certainly not going to take a cell mate that is in adult prison to make that change for