Juveniles Tried as Adults “The only effective way to reduce and prevent juvenile crime is to balance tough enforcement measures with targeted‚ effective and intervention initiatives.” Juveniles are children and children don’t know any better and obviously make mistakes. They don’t expect to be caught after committing a serious crime. Juveniles brains are not fully developed until they are 25‚ but young people recognize them as adults at the age of 18. About 25‚000 children a year have their cases
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Is it fair to trial 15 year old kids as an adult‚ even though there are young and don’t know better. Kids should not be tried as an adult for committing crimes they should be sent to rehabilitation. Our Legal system should attempt to rehabilitate juvenile offenders. The human brain does not fully develop until the age of 25. For example Adnan was 17 years old when he was tried and sent to jail‚ but if you look at him know he has gotten awards for good behavior. This example shows that people could
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In my opinion‚ I think that the teens should be tried and convicted as adult. In most juvenile systems throughout the country‚ the juvenile courts lose the power to young person at age 21. For example if a 17-year-old teenager murder and is convicted of that murder‚ he can only be sentenced to prison or to a juvenile facility until the age of 21. Then he has to be let go. So he would only serve four years for murder whether he killed one‚ two‚ three or five people. Most people feel that a three‚
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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
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believe teenagers should be tried and sentenced as adults. If teenagers believe they could get away with cruel crimes‚ then I believe they are capable of being able to handle the consequences of an adult act and behavior. Many juveniles in the United States are being tried as adults. “Age can shape every aspect of a capital case‚”(54) stated Adam Liptak in” Supreme Court to Rule on Executing Youth Killers”. Teenagers as well as kids have the ability to commit an adult crime. In the Article “A Portrait
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Joseph Tesmond Justice and the Law paper Spring 2010 Should Juveniles Be Tried As Adults? In today’s society‚ there is a national debate about what to do with juveniles in the criminal justice system. This debate is a result changes in practice throughout United States. The United States made it possible to try juveniles as adults in court after the case of Kent vs. the United States in 1966. The change in legislation is relatively new due to the fact that juvenile courts have "for most
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