Violent Crimes Should Be Tried As Adults Essay
Children (humans under the age of 18) who commit violent crimes should be tried as adults. Everyday children are arrested for violent crimes and only sentenced for a short period of time, but at the same time you are giving adults life in prison for the same crime. Sometimes the children only get about 1 year then letting them walk the streets again? Who knows if they are going to commit another violent crime.
According to the Justice Department about 10 percent of all murders are committed by children under the age of 18. Which is not a good thing, they need to learn that the path that they are on is not a good path, you can’t just let them sit in a juvenile detention center or jail for 5 months. Does that teach them anything? They need to …show more content…
Children are often affected by their home life, which doesn’t give the right for them to take their anger out on other people. Sometimes it’s because they learn their ways from their parents, and how their parents act at home. These children obviously need psychological help and they aren’t getting it, and I think we need to better supply them that, so we don’t have as many children committing violent crimes at such a young age or even at all. The murder rate has gone up so much, and most of those murders are committed by young adults or children under the age of 18.
Some people may think that it’s fairly reasonable to give these children a less harsh sentence because the decision making part of brain isn’t fully developed, so they can’t differentiate what’s right from what’s actually wrong. I on the other hand believe that most of the time it’s teens committing these violent acts, and they have a pretty good understanding to know what’s right vs what’s wrong.
In conclusion, I think that Children under the age of 18 that commit violent crime(s) should be tried as adults. They need to learn their lesson and how their actions are unacceptable. They should be put in jail now, not after they are adult, they still have a lot of time ahead of them, they should learn their lesson now before they are sitting in jail for their whole
According to the Justice Department about 10 percent of all murders are committed by children under the age of 18. Which is not a good thing, they need to learn that the path that they are on is not a good path, you can’t just let them sit in a juvenile detention center or jail for 5 months. Does that teach them anything? They need to …show more content…
Children are often affected by their home life, which doesn’t give the right for them to take their anger out on other people. Sometimes it’s because they learn their ways from their parents, and how their parents act at home. These children obviously need psychological help and they aren’t getting it, and I think we need to better supply them that, so we don’t have as many children committing violent crimes at such a young age or even at all. The murder rate has gone up so much, and most of those murders are committed by young adults or children under the age of 18.
Some people may think that it’s fairly reasonable to give these children a less harsh sentence because the decision making part of brain isn’t fully developed, so they can’t differentiate what’s right from what’s actually wrong. I on the other hand believe that most of the time it’s teens committing these violent acts, and they have a pretty good understanding to know what’s right vs what’s wrong.
In conclusion, I think that Children under the age of 18 that commit violent crime(s) should be tried as adults. They need to learn their lesson and how their actions are unacceptable. They should be put in jail now, not after they are adult, they still have a lot of time ahead of them, they should learn their lesson now before they are sitting in jail for their whole