Taking someone’s life because you feel good about it or because you were upset is as low as someone can go, especially in teens; however, some people believe that the reason why teens are committing these crimes are because their brains are underdeveloped, but as the article “On Punishment and Teen Killers” states “This actually disproves juvenile advocates’ reliance on the “underdeveloped brain” argument. If brain development were the reason, then teens would kill roughly at the same rates all over the world.” (Jenkins 1), This explains how brain development is not the issue because the teens kill at different ages, and for different reasons. Many teens seem normal, but they could be far from it, another statement Jenkins made was about a young man who was planning a murder, Jenkins stated “The offender was a serial killer in the making… He was not mentally disabled- In fact he was quite intelligent.” (2), This disproves the brain development argument many advocates utilize, as this teen was a normal healthy young individual. So if he did commit the murders, he should have faced life without parole, due to the fact that he was planning the murders, so he would most likely murder again and
Taking someone’s life because you feel good about it or because you were upset is as low as someone can go, especially in teens; however, some people believe that the reason why teens are committing these crimes are because their brains are underdeveloped, but as the article “On Punishment and Teen Killers” states “This actually disproves juvenile advocates’ reliance on the “underdeveloped brain” argument. If brain development were the reason, then teens would kill roughly at the same rates all over the world.” (Jenkins 1), This explains how brain development is not the issue because the teens kill at different ages, and for different reasons. Many teens seem normal, but they could be far from it, another statement Jenkins made was about a young man who was planning a murder, Jenkins stated “The offender was a serial killer in the making… He was not mentally disabled- In fact he was quite intelligent.” (2), This disproves the brain development argument many advocates utilize, as this teen was a normal healthy young individual. So if he did commit the murders, he should have faced life without parole, due to the fact that he was planning the murders, so he would most likely murder again and