Should Juveniles Be Tried As Adults

Juvenile criminals, conscious adults or underdeveloped children? When you're dealing with children who committed a crime such as murder, it is hard to judge if whether they should be tried as an adult or as a child. I think that juveniles should be tried as adults because if children brain development was the reason they kill others, then they teens would kill at around the same rate around the world. First, if children are not tried as adults and are released there is no telling if they will continue to do criminal acts or not. In an article by Gail Garner “Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentences” he says that “it is impossible at the time of sentencing for mental health professionals to predict which youngsters will fall within that majority
and grow up to be law-abiding citizens and will fall into the small minority that continue to do crimes.” I think it is crazy to let a criminal back into public and to just hope that they learned a lesson from their minor punishment for their horrible action”. Therefore, I do not think juveniles should be released back into the public until they are no longer a risk to society. Second, I do not agree that juveniles should not be tried as adults merely based on their age. It seems as if people want to protect the juvenile criminals instead of the victims or their families based on the criminals age. The people who defend the juveniles and say they should be of adult age to receive adult punishments means they would also defend a child who is seventeen years old who commits murder should not be tried as an adult but if he was 18 he would have a mindset of an adult in just a year. Thus, juveniles should not be safe from facing the punishments that they deserve based on their age. Lastly, juveniles should not be tried as minors based on their underdeveloped brain. Although teens do lose brain tissue it should not be used as an argument for why juveniles should not be tried as adult. The “underdeveloped brain “ argument should not be the reason for juveniles to avoid adult sentences because on an article called “On Punishment and Teen Killer” by Jennifer Jenkins she points out the flaws in this argument by saying “If brain development were the reason, then teens would kill at roughly the same rates all over the world”. For this reason I think juveniles should be charged as adults even based on their brain development.
In conclusion, juveniles are not unaware of what they are doing and need to face the consequences for their actions. These criminals should be tried as adults and not protected by their age or brain development. If these criminals get tried as adults it can help protect the lives of many innocent people.