Juvenile Punishment: Should Adolescents Be Tried As Adults?

Kota 1 Most Americans today think that teenagers are more indifferent because of the crime they committed. According to Lawrence Steinberg, an adolescent brain development expert, "The risk that the young brain is still developing and the mistakes made by young criminals may be more serious than we think." (Steinberg 1). Nonetheless, teenagers are responsible for their actions and should be judged as adults. Of course, as Kiley Hamlin said, "Researchers discovered that babies just six months of age gave moral decisions.

Young offenders should be tried and punished like adults. Crime is a crime regardless of age. If they sinned, they should do it. Due to age, teenagers try to push the law into the limits. They were unaware that their criminal record was unaware of what they followed and they did not notice. Juvenile criminals should be tried and punished according to crime, individual criminal record, criminal personality, and so on. - The idea that childhood or adolescence is tried as an adult has been a controversial issue since about 30 years ago. When a minor commits a very heinous crime, many think that this young man should be tried like an adult and make a good judgment. Even those who think that these teenagers should go to adult prisons. "Will you be an adult soon as a child dies, or will he hold some childhood traps despite his serious behavior?" (Reaves Para 1)

Should the death penalty be treated as punishment for adulthood adults? Yes, for juveniles who are adults, I think that the death penalty is part of the judgment of adults, so it is an option of crime such as murder and rape. In the case of 1976, the Supreme Court of Gregg v. Georgia decided that the death penalty did not violate the eighth revision prohibiting cruel and abnormal punishment (Bartollas & Miller, 1994). However, the court must consider certain conditions, such as age, characteristics of perpetrators, crime situation (Bartollas & Miller, 1994). Execution of young people under the age of 18 is allowed in 31 states in total. There are no minimum age in 16 states; 7: Alabama, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Utah, minimum age 14 years (Stengel, 1986). Crimes such as murder and rape should not be based on age, but should be based on the seriousness of the crime.