The Consequences Of Youthful Offenders

Youthful offenders are underage persons that have committed a crime, although not a crime that can be punished by death or life imprisonment, these youths are usually between the ages of 16 and 22. Even though the penalties are named differently than the ones given to adults, they are the same type of penalties. About 10 percent of homicides are committed by juveniles under the age of 18 and every year the FB arrests over 33,000 young adults. A lot of people think juveniles should be treated as adults and others as young kids. Since a lot of them commit these crimes in their early teens people say they won't have the same mental capacity when they are older. In the early 1990s, every state expanded the rules under which juvenile offenders