All through America it seems that juvenile children are committing extremely severe crimes. Fellow classmates and teachers are being murdered by juveniles as young as eleven and thirteen. As a result of this‚ a major issue has been raised‚ should children who commit a serious crime face the penalties as and adult? Do these kids know what they are doing? And more importantly do they know the consequences of their actions. The points that I ’m going to be outlining are children don ’t know/ know the
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Juveniles Deserve their Punishment Juveniles are considered juveniles and should be given juvenile punishment unless it’s for something inhumane‚ such as murder. The United States of America has the highest teen murder rate out of every country. The reason is due to guns being easy to get‚ the amount of violence they see today‚ and the T.V. programs shown. The 2012 Supreme Court decision to abolish mandatory life in prison for juveniles who commit murder was not a just decision‚ because teens should
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scientists have made it is different to see all the different things in crimes. According to my own experience‚ the order of the ranking I had is first peer influence‚ drugs and alcohol‚ parental relations‚ education‚ heredity and brain activity‚ discouraging criminal activity‚ easy access‚ and finally hormones. In my own experience‚ the factor that causes the most crime would be Peer Influence. This is the most committed crime I have seen because nowadays in high school most teens seem to only focus
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an adult? In some states‚ such as Texas‚ you are considered an adult at 17 years of age. Other state’s juvenile systems make you liable to be tried as an adult at the age of 18. Law enforcement officials have been questioning the age of being tried as an adult for the past 40 years. Recently‚ they have come to the conclusion that children between the ages of 16 and 18 who commit adult crimes should be tried and sentenced as adults. After researching information and cases of minors being tried
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there are a lot of juveniles committing crimes more now than in earlier generations. In numerous communities‚ there is a lack of parenting and not enough programs for children to get involved in. Because of this‚ children are often persuaded by their peers to commit crimes. This research paper will examine (1) the background issues with juveniles committing crimes‚ (2) what programs are offered for juveniles with convictions‚ and (3) how to keep a juvenile from repeating crimes and becoming an adult
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Juvenile Crime and Punishment A controversial topic is whether or not juvenile offenders should be tried as adults. Before answering this question‚ people should consider some underlying facts beforehand. The nature of the crime should be considered as well as if juveniles are mentally mature enough to understand the repercussions of their crime. Depending on the crimes‚ whether violent or non-violent the sentence should fit the crime regardless of the age of the perpetrator. If tried and convicted
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describe the process that leads to crime. In other words‚ how do “broken windows” lead to serious crime? Broken windows leads to serious crime because broken windows‚ or similar things‚ signify that no one cares in the community. If people did care that window would have been fixed‚ but when one window is broken is creates a slippery slope for serious crime to occur. When things like broken windows are present criminals unconsciously see it as appropriate to commit crimes. Little things like broken windows
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Prevention of Juvenile Crime Juvenile crime is a legal behaviour for youth or juvenile involves themselves in crime. For example‚ youth violence‚ violence youth gangs‚ drugs-related offences‚ murder‚ rape and so on. In most of the country the age range for juvenile is eleven to eighteen years old. Youth who committed in crime within this age range is consider as Juvenile Crime. When we flip though the newspapers‚ there are more and more report on juvenile crime. It seems like a trend for our
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in juvenile are awaiting trial. I find it interesting that a child as young as 6 years old can go to juvenile and a child as young as 16 be tried as an adult in court and sent away to prison. Some of the crimes these young children commit should not be committed. Majority of the crimes happen because they rather are in juvenile detention centers rather than home. They find the detention centers more like comfort zones. What can we do as a community to stop these crimes from happening? Why do children
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Do people commit different acts of evil? Are all acts of evil equal or different? In current time there are different punishments for different crimes committed. If a person commits a murder then they could be put in jail for life. While another person who robbed a bank might only be in prison for ten years. If there were only one form of evil then should the punishment for all crimes be the same? The different types of evil can be caused by different reasons and lead to many different consequences
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