Should Kids Be Tried As Adults

INTRODUCTION: There are many controversial topics we can spend hours talking about and have different points of view on. My favorite one is the one that argues if under aged kids should be tried as adults or not. This topic has so many different points of views that there will never be an exact answer on if children should be tried as adults or not. This topic is very interesting because every case is different, meaning that because there are different variables that led kids to get in trouble we can never say that all kids should be treated as adults because their level of crime is never the same. Viewing each case as its own is the only way that someone can decide on whether or not they can be seen as kids or adults, I don’t think this topic should be generalized into a yes or no. Of course, everybody has different views on things and in these next few paragraphs I will take into consideration different people’s opinions as well as why some people think this should be a firm yes or no.

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("Juvenile Law Center." Youth in the Adult System. Campaign for Youth Justice, Jan. 2013. Web. 07 Oct. 2014.)
i) It is known that the youth that go into adult jails are five times more likely to be raped and mistreated by others in those jails.
b) Fourteen states have no minimum age for trying children as adults. Children as young as eight have been prosecuted as adults. (Arellano, Jorge N. "Children in Prison." Equal Justice Initiative. N.p., 27 Sept. 2013. Web. 01 Oct. 2014.)
c) An adult sentence is where a young person under the age of 18 is found guilty of an indictable offence for which an adult is liable to imprisonment.

TRANSITION: The law has certain requirements children under the age of eighteen must reach in order to be tried as an adult.

2) Major arguments in favor of children getting tried as