Age is nothing but a number, children grow up, their brain develops in a way that they will know what is right and what is wrong. Before they reach the age of two, children know the difference between right and from wrong (Mail). There is no excuse of a teens behavior of a criminal act, the older they get, the more they know what the right thing is to do, and that does not include breaking the law. There have been many complications on to rather send a minor into prison because of how young he or she may be. On the contrary, there is no going around it when it comes to the seriousness of a certain crime Some of the transfers to adult court even occur automatically based on the juvenile’s age and crime. Kids today are more sophisticated at a younger age, they understand the implications of violence and how to use violent weapons. It is absurd to argue that a modern child, who sees the effect of violence around him in the news every day, does not …show more content…
When an adolescent is sent to prison he or she will think twice about their crime. Being in prison will make them want to get out and never go in there again, for there is more to life than being beaten down and sexually abused my people who are twice their age. Kids take for granted light punishments so they choose to do whatever they want because they know how to get around the system with a murder or rape charge. After rising most years since 2006, the number of young adults ages 18 to 29 in prison or jail fell by 11 percent between 2008 and 2009, to reach 778,200 (Childrentrends.org). Those results shows that sending juveniles to jail with a tougher sentence can prevent more crimes to continue. The crimes of juveniles will eventually be stop if they are handled correctly. Heinous crimes does not deserve the rights to be solved lightly, for there will be more to come if a juvenile crimes are not token seriously because their