Youth that hang around people their age that are making bad choices and not abiding the law will involve in crimes with friends who are doing the same. Their environment can cause them to act out in negative ways, the lack of positive adults, abuse and neglect, and too much idle time and not enough planned activities. Children should not be tried as adults. “The United States Supreme Court has ruled that there are limitations on the punishment juveniles can receive even when they are tried in adult court. The law considers youth crimes to be less culpable than adult, therefore juvenile punishment should not be as severe as those available for adults, even for the exact same crime.” The punishment of a 14 year old, Arkansas teenager who wasn’t the triggerman at a video rental store that he and his robbed was fair.
Minors should not be tried as adults because they have not experienced the world like adults have, and they are not competent enough to go through or understand a trial. Many argue that minors should be tried as adults because they know what they are doing, and since society is changing and it’s not how it used to be 10 years ago, minors should be tried as adults for the reason that they need to learn their lesson and realize the crime they did was wrong. But in a recent study examining the mental health of minors after being tried as adults says, “66% of youth processed in adult criminal court had at least one psychiatric disorder and 43% had two or more types of disorders”. Another study was done for adults and it said, “less than 35% of adult males have a psychiatric disorder compared to 64% of transferred Youth”. I compared the two studies, and you can see that minors being tried as an adult have more of a chance to at least one psychiatric disorder.
Teens are not the same as Adults Kari Adams December 7, 2012 B2 In the article, “Kids Are Kids – Until They Commit Crimes” Margie Lundstrom argues that teenagers should not be tried as adults because their resonating in not fully developed, but they should not go unpunished. I agree with this because teenagers’ brains are not fully developed, so their judgment is poor. Lundstrom states that “Kids are different. Their reasoning is not fully developed. They are not adults”(1).
President Mark Soler of the Washington, D.C., Youth Law Center points out that adolescents/children are required by law to be incarcerated separately from adults. However, the overwhelmed juvenile justice system lets the adult criminal justice system handle many youth offenders. This causes numerous negative effects for convicted juveniles. The law recognizes that adolescents/children are less equipped to make important decisions than adults are. Yet the law fails to distinguish between adolescents/children and adults when it comes to spending the rest of their lives in prison for crimes they have committed before their 18th birthday.
Monique Gonzales Mancia 11 May 2012 Minors Should Not Be Tried as Adults in Court “In the United States, children are treated as different from adults, except when it comes to criminal law; We see them as in need of protection from the outside world and as insufficiently mature to justify being treated as adults” (Barstow). Children are not allowed to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or even vote until the age of 18 or 21 yet when it comes to criminal law they are looked upon as an adult and prosecuted as adults. Experts from attorneys to Supreme Court justices still wrestle with the issues that appear when discussing this topic. Current policies and procedures seem to create more controversy with each new case of a juvenile tried as an adult. Minors should not be tried as adults in court because they lose the chance at receiving rehabilitation services, the recidivism rate is higher, and the stigma of a criminal past on an adults’ life.
The youth should not put in prison It is not a good idea put the youth in the prison. so you think it is possible if they do something in crime without other manuduction need to put in the prison is right? The young people don’t know what is right and wrong. Also the youth don’t understand the law. The governments need to foster them.
A major issue facing the juvenile justice system is how young offenders are treated and held, before the trial process. Laws dictating rights of adult suspects are not necessarily applied to juveniles, and this is due to an unresolved and halfway approach to juvenile crime.Juveniles are not considered responsible adult, it is often the case that parents are to be turned to when arrests take place. Legally, a parent or guardian must be contacted upon the holding of a suspected juvenile. This is a mode of thinking perhaps admirable, but hopelessly antiquated and unrealistic, since many adolescent offenders do not come from traditional backgrounds, or even have a parent in place as guardian. What actually happens in most cases of juvenile arrest
The question really is why the parents would be held responsible for the crimes or actions of their children. People who disagree with me will say that since the parents are responsible for the child that they are responsible for the child’s actions. What I say to that is, parents should not be held responsible for their children’s actions and/or crimes because the parents cannot control every decision of their minor children. A parent can teach a child to do the right thing but that does not mean the child will always do the right thing. A parent cannot control everything that their child does.
There is no known fact to answer this question because there have been many kids that have been abused physically, mentally, and sexually by his or her parents but they did not grow up to be serial killers. According to Joel Norris, he states that, “Parents who abuse their children, physically as well as psychology instill in them an almost instinctive reliance upon violence as a first resort to any challenge.” (Norris, 1989) In some cases parents believe that if they discipline their children it will make them tougher when they grow up. Often sometimes children don’t see that when they are being disciplined it makes a child start to lack love for their parents and it makes the child go out and do things like setting fires, misbehaving in school and the need to torture animals to release the anger they have built up inside of them from the hurt that their parents have called all because they wanted to discipline their child (Norris, 1989). When a child torture or kill an animal does that automatically mean that the child will grow up to become a serial killer? Or is it the only way a child can release all the hatred and angry that they are suppressing from being abused by their parents?
Many people have been trying to determine when a human can be identified as a criminal, so that it can be prevented, deterred, or even reversed. However, very limited progress has been made, due to there being no realistic way to conduct conclusive experiments. Various studies have shown that twins split apart at birth will have similar characteristics, especially in the areas of aggressiveness, nurturance, empathy, and assertiveness (Wood et al., 2005, p.365). Obviously this shows that we are born with some innate personality traits, which leads me to believe that becoming a criminal is not a matter of nature versus nurture, but rather an issue of nature and nurture in accordance with each other. By this I mean that although anyone can potentially become a criminal, people who are born with such personality traits as higher aggression and becoming temperamental with less provocation are much more likely to commit crimes if they have had an abnormal upbringing.