Juvenile Justice Essay We are living in a society that thinks, acts and decides the way they live differently. Each individual has the capacity to decide and the ability to make their own choices. Around us we can see many things happening. One of them is the juvenile violence that each day the amount of crimes raise, and make the Supreme Court want to treat juveniles as adult when they commit a violent crime. But in my opinion they should be treated as adults according to the way juveniles think, act and they make decisions by themselves. Juveniles act knowing the things they are doing, but they don’t realize the consequence in a future. In the book “Angels of Death True Crime book, Chapter 2 from Derek and Alex king” On November 26, 2001 in Florida Derek, with 13 year old and Alex King, 12 year old they killed their father. Derek kills his dad with a baseball bat when he was sleeping because his dad make them feel uncomfortable also they was mentally abused, after that they burned the house to eliminate all evidence and them they run away. They were accused with first degree murder, with 8 and 7 years in jail. According to this case, we should notice that this two little boys acted with intelligence. Derek …show more content…
We can notice that as human we have the ability to do what we want and while our mind changes we do it, however this depends on each one of us how we act and think knowing that we will have the consequences in the