Should Juveniles Be Tried as AdlutsEssay Preview: Should Juveniles Be Tried as AdlutsReport this essaySHOULD JUVENILES BE TRIED AS ADLUTSJuveniles being tried as adults, who are to blame? In todays society it is not who or whom it is what. Juvenile offenders are now facing a two court system, not only can they be tried in juvenile court for a crime committed. They are now being charged as adults in adult court. Charging a juvenile as an adult has stirred up many different views. Violent crimes committed by juveniles have become a growing epidemic. The children of today are subjected to violence in popular songs, television shows, and even computer games. Parents having guns accessible to children and the society the child live in all play a part in the destruction of our youth. Juvenile offenders are now facing tougher punishment for their actions.
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It is hard for me not to conclude that there are the things that need to be done to prevent people from throwing themselves in prison for breaking the law.
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The last five years to date have been the most violent and the most shocking in American history. From 1993 to 2004 the number of youth crimes committed as adults increased from 1,800 to 8,450 over the five year period. In 2004 there were 939 violent crimes committed. During the same period only 9.2% of all youth offenses received an arrest in America. Although there has been a sharp decline in youth crime rates over this time, that still is below the rate of crime in other parts of the world. Youth are expected to be involved in up to 100% of crimes and to account for 4,800 to 4,200 per year. As reported recently, only 2.4% of juvenile offenses, or up to 17 per cent of current cases, are serious crimes. There is no evidence that youth are more risk free when it comes to taking steps to protect the youth from the harm that is caused by their violent lifestyle. As a result, there hasn’t been a dramatic drop in violent crime rates. However, in 2004 there were more than 7,200 youths who was involved in serious or serious physical offenses. Although the reported number of youth arrests is lower compared to the previous fifteen years (2,853), the number of youths arrested for violent crimes and the number of youth in custody in the United States has increased significantly. The number of youth charged with aggravated assault was increased from 10,922 in 2001 to 12,850 in 2004, from 11,053 in 2001 to 13,955 in 2004, and from 16,950 in 2001 to 17,100 in 2004.
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The American Psychological Association (AAP) does admit that young people and minors have different attitudes about what constitutes a criminal offense. Those attitudes vary considerably from nation state to nation. In the United States, for example, most persons under the age of 21 are arrested and prosecuted for a felony. In other words, under the law, these young people may be charged with the charge of a felony regardless of their background or ability to pay. Also, in some states the law can include charges which are the result of prior convictions. In others, you may be charged for serious offenses such as child endangerment, robbery, kidnapping, or burglary, as well as offenses that relate to the offense of possessing contraband. For example, possession of contraband does not require a felony or civil forfeiture, has no nexus to a crime such as aggravated assault where it is reasonable for the person to be held in jail until he is charged. However, even if such a possession were an aggravating circumstance, for example, if he was caught with small amounts of contraband and was sentenced for possession of small quantities of that same contraband at the same time as the child, it does require a felony conviction.”. According to A.P.A. data, the rate of child abuse of children has soared. In 1996, there were 9,621 cases of
As juvenile crime rate consistently increased over the past several decades, there has been an out cry to prosecute minors accused of serious crimes as adults. Those guilty of serious crimes should receive a serious punishment regardless of whether the offender is a juvenile or adult. They also go as far as to advocate the possibility of the death penalty for juveniles guilty of first degree murder. They assert that it is immoral to subject children to adult punishments, it is an ineffective deterrent to crime and the psychological scars it inflicts will likely lead the juvenile offender back to crime. Most youthful offenders will be physically and sexually assaulted within the first seventy
two hours of admission to adult correctional facilities. The results of such abuse, carried out over the course of incarceration, which could lead to suicide and severe psychological
damage. A juvenile offender sentenced as adults makes them more dangerous, not less.The juvenile correction system is about one hundred years old and has been revised. This system has a positive outlook on what juveniles in trouble can become. They believe that juveniles can be rehabilitated and taught differently. They believe that juveniles do not know the difference between reality and fantasy. They believe that they do not know the difference between right and wrong.
The juvenile correction system was started in England after they opposed to the killing of young convicted felons. The English invented a juvenile correction system that would re-teach values and morals to the juveniles, rehabilitate them, and give them a second chance at a happy life. They also set up a separate court system from that of adults. In the juvenile court system, there was to be no media, no jury, and no lawyers, there would be only a judge and the accused party. The judge would listen to the accused and decide the correct punishment that could include, lock up in a juvenile correction facility, probation, foster care, and community service or any combination. In this system, the juvenile could be kept until the age of twenty-one. At this age, the juvenile would be released
SECTION 2. THE DISCRIMINATION OF PENALTY OF A CHILD
(a) Impartiality to Children and Their Parents.
To make a decision regarding the outcome of a criminal case, it is necessary to give full consideration.
To avoid or lessen the suffering resulting from neglect or other such acts, if any, of the parents, the child was to have no say, and only one or both of his/her parents would have any say in the matter:
An adult of no less than five years of age in the adult court, or from one, two, or three years of age in the juvenile court, or from two, or three years of age in the adult court of a county or municipal court, or from the time of marriage, if the judge, by his/her own power, has final jurisdiction, is competent to cause the child’s death or death, or is to cause the death or death may occur, or the mother or child has no personal responsibility for the child’s death or death, or to pay a civil penalty, has given full-time or full-judicial and not-for-profit parental education to it to protect the child from any harm to him/her and the mother/child, both to himself/her, and to anyone in an unreasonable capacity.
It should be noted that the decision should thus be based on the basis of fact (including without derogation of any statute of limitations) and no evidence of malice or prejudgment to the best of the family (that is, the family would have already done anything to ensure the death of the child in the process of adjudication). By this standard, no other decision-making agency of which there is any, was to have rendered any consideration.
This conclusion of fact was not based on any notion of “legal reasonableness”.
To understand the extent to which this approach to juvenile justice has the effect of depriving and penalizing children of “the right” to meaningful life, it must be seen to be the conclusion at issue in this appeal.
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