He uses logic to set up the article and by posing the analogy “We seem to forget that kids can be as tech-savvy as Bill Gates but as gullible as Bambi,” he introduces a dimension of reasoning to shows that we live in an age of technology and that the child pornography laws are defeated when they are being used to prosecute teens instead of protecting them. The authors tone is strong and opinionated when he includes that “judges and prosecutors need to understand that a lifetime of cyber humiliation shouldn’t be ground for a lifelong real criminal record.” The article concludes with he is opinion on how the situation should be handled, by suggesting that parents should be the one to remind their teens of the potential risks of this trending epidemic. He bluntly mentions that “the criminal-justice system is too harsh of an instrument to resolve a problem that reflects more about the volatile combination of teens and technology than about some national cybercrime
It is true that he could not control it, but when he knew it was wrong he should have went for help. He still went to jail, but his sentence was lighter. With help, he could have gotten an early diagnosis and medication. While having zero libido is something very few, if anyone, would want, it beats out a crazily overactive libido that results in illegality and jail time. 2.
Although many people are against that, others have felt it was right even necessary. Yes teens make mistakes and do unnecessary things, but treating them as adult’s isn’t the right thing to do. Juveniles shouldn’t be punished as adults, because they’re still maturing and still have the mind of a child. Teenagers often don’t have the mind of an adult, so why try them as one? In Adam Liptak’s article “ Locked Away Forever” published in The New York Times he tells us of the case of Joe Sullivan, who was charged with sexually
You are claiming that I am older than you yet are you wiser than I am in acknowledging the fact that people, who do harm, harm those whom they are closest to whereas good people do good things to their neighbors, but I am ignorant to understand this. This means that if I make one of my associate’s evil, I run the risk of being harmed by his evil intentions. Overall you are claiming that I am deliberately putting myself into danger. This Meletus is not true and I don’t believe you and I don’t think anyone else will. I do not corrupt the young, I do so unwillingly or you are lying.
Raised by their father to respect and revere the dictator Trujillo Minerva Mirabal develops a natural suspicion of such blatant authoritarianism. These misgivings are further consolidated when she meets a friend at school who informs her that Rafael Trujillo is secretly disposing of anyone who speaks out against him. The film and the movie portray this scenario very similarly as it is one of the scenes that will sow the seeds of future rebellion in Minerva. This is the first time that Minerva starts to think that Rafael Trujillo’s benignant disposition may be little more than a facade use to dissuade public accusations of cruelty. A subtle difference between the film and the movie involves the imprisonment of Enrique Mirabal.
Besides, we don't really mean it: When we try them in criminal court, we do not deem them adults for other purposes, such as voting and drinking. We know they're still minors — they are developmentally less mature and responsible and more impulsive, erratic and vulnerable to negative peer pressure. As people, they are still active works in progress. We just do not like the logical consequences of that reality that they are by nature less culpable than law breaking adults, even when they do very bad things. So we change the rules of the game.
There are three truths that both critics and advocates of juvenile justice have agreed upon. The first, children are fundamentally different from adults due to their lack of cognitive and moral decision making. Second, providing procedural protection and effective intervention has failed. Lastly, the juvenile justice system cannot only rely on its traditional foundation. Eliminating the juvenile court system and taking away diversion, intervention, prevention only induces the possibility of creating career criminals.
Probably” was an experiment that actually lead to people electrocuting a poor innocent man. In the late seventy’s Stanley Milgram decided to do an experiment which would tell the difference in whom was more obedient Americans or Germans. This experiment was held in Yale University. There were two players the old man around his fifties and an outside person. The outsider would strap the old man down to an electric chair and if he got any questions wrong he would electrocute him.
The adolescents do not take time to critically think about the consequence of the risky behaviors. Adults, on the other hand, take time to evaluate the consequences of such behaviors, and this explains why only a few adults engage in risky behaviors. Since adults and adolescents think and reason about risk in the same way, psychologists believe that the age differences in getting involved in risky behaviors is a result of the information differences adults and adolescents use in making decisions. Efforts to minimize adolescents’ risk taking aimed at altering their attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, have not been successful. However, providing
One of the arguments of co-education is the idea that it provides too many distractions for students. Several scholars have argued that these distractions have led to less attention on school work and class participation, due to girls and boys trying to impress each other. Furthermore, it has also been argued that students who are intimidated by the opposite sex may also be affected by low performance and low grades. Many educators believe that single-sex education does not enforce any type of gender-based stereotypes or adolescent subculture. Due to this, single-sex schools have been established to combat these issues.