Minors Should Not Be Tried As Adults Essay
Introduction to Juvenile Law and Why They Should Not be Tried as Adults
ENG 215 January 16, 2014
Should minors be tried as adults when convicting a crime? The first reason for selecting this research topic was because this subject is very complicated to understand thoroughly, and maybe this paper will help people better understand the issues. The second reason for selecting this topic was to show the audience and professor that this is a beneficial topic to read about. The characteristics of my audience would be people with personal experience, lawyers, and possibly legislatures. Minors should not be tried as adults when convicting a crime because they have not experienced the adult world yet, and they technically don’t know what they are getting themselves into at that age, and state of mind. But they should, however be sentenced to a strict probationary system and do community service to understand what they have done was wrong. Before the late nineteenth century, anyone under the age of seventeen was convicted and tried as an adult. Due to research studies by …show more content…
The convention goes for any person under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is acquired under a states domestic legislation (Roose, and Bouverne-De Bie, 2007). The rights of children are very important, and it becomes especially visible in Third World countries and the focus is having children on the same grounding as the adults such as warfare (Roose, and Bouverne-De Bie, 2007, p.432). Children are viewed differently because of the immaturity which is common to nature. That takes moral conviction into place, which is a judgment of the good or bad, whether or not if it is just morally wrong or just in behavior (Wright,
ENG 215 January 16, 2014
Should minors be tried as adults when convicting a crime? The first reason for selecting this research topic was because this subject is very complicated to understand thoroughly, and maybe this paper will help people better understand the issues. The second reason for selecting this topic was to show the audience and professor that this is a beneficial topic to read about. The characteristics of my audience would be people with personal experience, lawyers, and possibly legislatures. Minors should not be tried as adults when convicting a crime because they have not experienced the adult world yet, and they technically don’t know what they are getting themselves into at that age, and state of mind. But they should, however be sentenced to a strict probationary system and do community service to understand what they have done was wrong. Before the late nineteenth century, anyone under the age of seventeen was convicted and tried as an adult. Due to research studies by …show more content…
The convention goes for any person under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is acquired under a states domestic legislation (Roose, and Bouverne-De Bie, 2007). The rights of children are very important, and it becomes especially visible in Third World countries and the focus is having children on the same grounding as the adults such as warfare (Roose, and Bouverne-De Bie, 2007, p.432). Children are viewed differently because of the immaturity which is common to nature. That takes moral conviction into place, which is a judgment of the good or bad, whether or not if it is just morally wrong or just in behavior (Wright,