Monster Journal Entry In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, has a unique style of writing Monster. Steve Harmon is 16 years old and is in jail and on trial for having a hold-up and shooting and killing the store clerk. The different kinds of writing that is in Monster are writing like a screenplay, stage direction, diary, first person and flashbacks. Myers includes a first person and a diary perspective. Harmon discusses his reaction in his journal to the reflection in the mirror, “When I look into the small rectangle, I see a face looking back at me but I don’t recognize it.
Nathaniel Abraham The decision was corrected by the judges of Nathaniel Abraham case. He constantly did crime and he would not have stopped if he has not severed the time. Because when he got back out to the real world he had did a drug crime that landed him right back in jail. Nathaniel Abraham was eleven years old when he committed murder. In Michigan law of a child of any age may be tried as an adult for severe crimes.
The book To Kill a Mockingbird is directly comparable to the movie 12 Angry Men. Both Texts show the theme that true understanding takes time, study, and effort, but To Kill a Mockingbird shows what happens when people do not take the time to obtain a true understanding. In the book Tom Robinson is convicted for allegedly raping a teenage girl even though there was sensible doubt that Tom did not rape the girl and there was no concrete evidence. In the film a teenage male Puerto Rican was accused of murdering his father. All the evidence and the defendant weak testimony made him look so guiltily that 11 out of 12 jurors voted guilty in the preliminary vote.
He had never been in prison and that’s how people would react if they have never been to prison.” Additionally, as Karissa pointed out, how would he be putting himself on a pedestal if he brought awareness to all of his mistakes in the book? Moreover, I think if he put himself on a pedestal, he would not have committed suicide in the long run. I believe Hassine’s response was different because he was educated in law. I am not sure if he had a juvenile delinquent past when he was younger (like Ronald Cotton), but his education of law definitely had an impact on his reaction. Instead of him being angry, revengeful, and hostile; he wanted to be alone (liked being in the hole), absorb everything, and start writing letters to change the horrible prison
Everyday juveniles are being tried in adult criminal court. Between 1992 and 1997 forty-four states and the District of Colombia passed laws facilitating the transfer of juveniles to the adult system. Senators are steadily weighing tougher standards for juvenile offenders, partly because of massacres like Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The juvenile system, which started in England, was invented to re-teach values and morals to the young, rehabilitate them, and give them a second chance at a happy life (Glick 25). Juvenile offenders should not be tried as adults because they will suffer physical and psychological damage, endure societal alienation, and possibly reoffend the law.
Bryce Rohner-Talton Mrs. Peterson AVID March/17/2014 B: 4 Juvenile Justice If some random teenager were to kill some random person, would you care if he be tied or not? What if some teenager killed your son, daughter, spouse, mother, father, or anyone else loved, would you care then? This is why juvenile trial as adults is a matter of opinion, it always has been. Though in any case, whether it be a small misdemeanor or grand theft, even murder, a juvenile should be tried as an adult. This is because a teenagers mind can vary just as much as an adults, and age should not be a penalizing factor in the Judicial System.
The article expounds on some key statistics that suggest that young people are 36 more times to commit suicide in an adult prison than a juvenile facility. It also speaks to the outcome of young people who survive an adult facility. They return to society as damaged and dangerous people and are more likely to commit violent crimes and add to the recidivism rate. This article reinforces my opinion and advocates my stance on children in jails with adults. A quote from the article that puts it in perspective says, “The rush to criminalize children has set the country on a dangerous path.
He was later convicted of killing a thirteen year old boy. Then there is Freddie whose life consisted of violence like shooting a girl with a BB gun hitting a rival gang member in the head with a hammer and selling crack. The Juvenile Court judge said that his mother could not control him and he was placed in the Audy House. The list goes on and on so that after a while the faces become blurred for the people working at the Audy House. While dealing with Chicago's Juvenile Court system, Ayers always has to compare the contrast to his own children lives .His son who had just turned sixteen,has opened birthday cards and presents,basketball, video games,gift certificates,clothes and a trip to get his drivers license.
Richard Allen Davis, according to Tucker Carlson has “a monstrous personality (168)” and was apprehended for killing Polly Klass after being released multiple times. In both of these cases, and in many others, authorities were warned early that they were dealing with very dangerous predators. The “revolving door (Breig168)” is so quick that police know to question freshly paroled convicts once a new rape case occurs (Breig168). The social cost of letting career predators go every year is enormous. According to a recent study,
But Brenton Butler, a 15 year old black male was arrested, Butler is much younger and shorter than the criminal that was describe to the police, the only description Brenton Butler fits is being Black. Brenton Butler was subjected to a show up, he was placed in a patrol car and shown to the husband, who at that time makes a positive eye witness that Butler is the man who shot and killed his wife. This documentary highlights the evident problems in our judicial system relating to juveniles accused of crimes. The Butler case was handled in one of the most incompetent and inappropriate ways possible. The Jacksonville Police were more focused on getting a quick conviction rather doing good police work.