Should Juveniles Be Charge As Adult In Criminal Cases? “Draft paper” Delvitta, Reid Post University CSS101.58: Learn Across Lifespan 10/3/12 Instructor: Erna, Krieger In my draft paper about should children be charge as an adult in criminal cases. To me it depends on the case and the ages of the child have done. Today around the world there are many children going to jail at the age of 12 to 14 .I have seen child charge as adult at the age of 12, and still in jail doing time for killing someone he didn’t like in school and he shoot him in the face. To me the children of today don’t care if they kill someone and they would not go to jail because their age.
The juvenile court did make the decision to transfer his case, therefore; Stanford would be trialed as an adult under a state statute permitting such action as to offenders who are either charged with a class A felony, capital crime or anyone over the age of sixteen and charged with a felony. ( (Death Penalty in America,)Legal Studies 485, Spring 2003. Stanford was convicted of murder, first degree sodomy, first degree robbery, and receiving stolen property. He was sentenced to death and forty five years in prison. Stanford appealed this sentencing on the notion that his eight amendments protectipon against cruel and unusual punishment had been violated.
Should we treat juvenile offenders as adults? When a teenager accused of a serious crime gets tried as an adult, the results are anything but predictable. A 14-year-old convicted in a robbery in which a man was brutally strangled gets sent to a juvenile facility. A 15-year-old convicted of robbing another teen at gunpoint heads straight to adult prison, though he caused no physical harm. More than a decade ago, with the intent of being tough on crime, Virginia lawmakers made it relatively easy to try a juvenile as an adult.
In the state of Ohio a child is defined as a person under the age of 18. However, the state of Ohio Revised Code 2152.10 states that a child under the age of 18, can be tried as an adult only if the child was age 14 or older at the time of the offense. The child can be tried as an adult if the court so orders it. In this particular case the court could decide whether the child stays in juvenile court for the proceedings or if the child is transferred to adult court. The defendant in question is a fifteen year old male charged with murder of an elderly woman.
He did not only kill his father’s pregnant fiancé, he also murdered their unborn child. Why would they give Jordan special treatment because he was 11 years old? Yes, he is young, but he was at an age to clearly set apart right from wrong and what he did was definitely wrong. The way I like to look at it is that murder is murder no matter the name or the age of the person. Jordan committed a serious crime and he should have to pay for his actions.
She participated in an act of violence with her boyfriend and did not talk to the police so they gave her ten years and he talked and received three years. Stephanie “The woman’s daughter, the conspirator, is chasing her son through the maze of chairs and tables and through other children,” (Coyne 92). Once again this goes back to the little boy’s behavior, attitude, and lack of respect for his mother. The other children sitting down talking to their parents and he’s running making his mother chase him around. While Stephanie is under incarceration Ellie is staying with his grandmother.
In the state of Wisconsin in 1992, Felicia Morgan was seventeen-years-old when she was tried as an adult for first-degree murder. Her attorney, Robin Shellow, argued the “Ghetto Defense.” After being raised around extreme amounts of violence and developing PTSD as a result of this violence, this defense was thought to be the most appropriate for her crime. However, it did
It was like an open drug market. Although, the police patrolled the neighborhood and even made some arrests, gang members continued to do drug transactions openly on the street corners. Five years ago a Neighborhood Association was established, and with the help from the Mayor’s Office and Baltimore City Police Department, we were able take back one block at a time. Currently, the neighborhood again is repeating the same unsafe conditions that plagued our community ten years ago. Just last week a thirteen-year-old boy sustained a gunshot wound to his left leg.
Juvenile incarceration is unfair more than 2,225 juveniles across the country now are serving life in prison without parole.... Because of tough state laws such as charging murder suspects as adults regardless of their age, Pennsylvania tops the nation in the number of young offenders condemned to life in prison without parole.... Nearly 500 teens serving life terms in Pa. prisons To begin with, can a person come from a life of crime to changing their life around? Yes, they can and many have proved to doing so. In that case, why haven’t juveniles been given a chance to change their life around? Society needs to give the youth an opportunity to prove that they can change their lives instead of giving up on them. Not every child is given the needed tools to succeed in life, but with help and programs they can get what they deserve.
A young person in the criminal justice system costs the taxpayer over £200,000 by the age of 16, but one given support to stay out costs less than £50,000. • Projects must be accessible, reliable and relevant, and reflect the diversity of young people’s needs. • Young people value approachable project staff who take an interest in them and offer advice and support. Two-thirds of the 150 local area agreements signed in 2008 included targets for increasing young people’s participation in positive activities or for reducing the number of first-time entrants into the criminal justice system. Funding arrangements do not reflect the research evidence about how to change behaviour: too many projects are short term with limited impact.