Should Children Under The Age of 18 Be Tried As Adults? Today you hear more and more about children, under the age of 18, who has committed murder. Whether it was on purpose or by accident, these stories are beginning to fill up the headlines. A big question is how are these children punished for the crimes that they commit? Children are not considered to be adults, so should they be tried as adults?
Juvenile Crime Juveniles accused of serious offences should be tried in adult courts, rather than in Juvenile Courts. Discuss the pros and cons of such statement. Introduction Juvenile delinquency, better known as youth crime occurs when people of a younger age are involved in criminal activities instead of character forming activities like education or sports. Some of the causes of this type of crime include broken families, lack of education and drug addiction. Like every other type of crime, it has negative effects on society.
It is not fair or righteous to treat juveniles as adults. Today we live in a world of crime and the youth are committing many of these crimes. The juvenile court system is to deal with all crimes committed by minors (under age 18) but this is not happening mostly minor crimes and cases involving custody and neglect are being brought to these courts. When a person is tried, he will fall under the category of either an adult or a minor. However, things in the judicial system are changing.
Juveniles Tried As Adults Dorothy Isaac CRJ 376- Court Systems and Processes April 17, 2014 Abstract When a child kills, does he instantly become an adult? Or does he maintain some trappings of childhood, despite the gravity of his actions? These are the questions plaguing the American legal system today, as the violent acts of juvenile offenders continue to make headlines. Trial as an adult is a situation when a juvenile offender is tried as if he/she were an adult. Where specific protections exist for juvenile offenders such as suppression of an offender's name or picture or a closed courtroom where the proceedings are not made public, these protections may be waived.
), commit a drive by shooting or another type of murder. Defacing buildings or other property with graffiti to mark their territory, burglar or in some instances murder, are all part of regular gang activity. Gang warfare may erupt when two competing gangs fight each other for territory. Drive-by-shootings can result in many innocent bystanders being hit and little children are often victims of this. Many people are afraid to walk down their streets these days and parents whose kids join gangs often do not know how to handle this situation or how to help them out of this lifestyle.
John Girard Professor Baker II Psych 350: When Harm Is Done September 9th 2013 Fixing Juvie Justice: Reflection Paper When one thinks of the definition of criminal what might come to mind? Murder, drug lord, gangster, bank robber are all-extreme examples that came may come to mind. Yet many people would be shocked to know that many of these “evil criminals” portrayed in the media, television, and even movies got there start as a children! The repeat offenders in and out of our prison system most likely began their life of a crime as a child. The film we watched class cleverly titled Fixing Juvie Justice completely broke down the wall of doubt that was is our American judicial system, and offers a positive solution to fixing the problem of repeat offenders.
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.
Youth Violence an Epidemic Violence is one of the most problematic issues we face in society today. To most people, the most ridiculous and noticeable violence is youth crime. Youth violence has become a lifestyle that includes drugs, guns, gangs, and murder. Contributing factors to the problem stem from lack of parental supervision and guidance, social and peer pressures, and violence on television. Everything from school shootings to capital murder, it is apparent that the problem is only getting worse.
Juvenile delinquency describes the antisocial behavior of many different types of youth who are in trouble, or who are on the brink of trouble with the law. In general terms juvenile delinquency means different things to different people. By law, a juvenile delinquent is a person under the age of eighteen who is found guilty in a court of law for committing some sort of crime. Children are not just born delinquents; they are products of circumstances, chance, culture and environment. A youth named a delinquent by circumstance and chance is a youth who has been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Children are most frequently sexually abused by someone they know, often a member of their own family. Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. And this include Children have been abused physical, sexual and psychological. Other way is that people adopt children to make work for them, to sell to drug dealers or people who buy children for sex. The sadness thing is that children have been abused especially sexual by their own parents or siblings.