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Juvenile Criminals Being Tried As Adults In Kids In Prison, By Brian Hansen

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According to “Kids in Prison” by Brian Hansen, juveniles are being tried as adults for violent and non-violent crimes. Kids being tried as adult is the most controversial topic the world cannot agree on today. It is hard to pick one side due to every case being a different situation, but I think I have established a well-thought opinion. Children should not be tried as adults due to their level of cognitive capability, proneness to harm in adult prisons, and their inability to be rehabilitated in a harmful environment. First, a child’s cognitive thinking is at a different level than an adult’s, so a child does not have the means to survive in an adult prison. Hansen asserts, “One must ask why the government prevents a child from driving a car, voting, drinking alcohol or serving in the military because of an age disability but considers 13-year-olds capable of understanding adult criminal procedures and serving in adult prison” (367). If a child is unable to handle adult privileges, such as even watching a rated R movie, then why would the child be capable of enduring adult consequences and disciplinary actions? It is possible that most children may not even comprehend what it is they have done wrong. Children’s ways of cognitive thinking are not as high a level as an adult. It is said that a person does not stop …show more content…

Since children are subject to many stages of harm in adult prisons, they are also prone to recidivism, “Those that survive become more dangerous and reoffend at more serious levels very soon after release from prison” (367). Kids who survive prison are often left with psychological damage and resort in behavioral problems which leads them back in prison with no hope of a proper rehabilitation. They say prison is a dangerous cycle. When you are out, you never stay out and the cycle continues because the world does not want you

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