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Juvenile Justice Essay

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Juvenile Justice is a type of justice that is either given or not given to teenagers, ages 18 and under who had committed any form of a bad crime, like rape, murder, theft, or robbery. These are types of crimes that some adults do that is beyond unbelievable. Juveniles should be treated as adults in courts because even though some juveniles/teenagers are not matured yet, as some would say, those juveniles should know what the right and wrong in certain actions we do in everyday life. However, if the court pleads the prosecutor guilty, he/she must only be sent to juvenile detention center until he/she turns the adulthood age, then he/she can be sent into prison facility, but the sentence should be less harsh as the person who had committed the …show more content…

Many judges convict juveniles but by doing this, the teenager is affected psychologically. In the article Startling Finds on Teenage Brains, a fourteen-year-old Brazilian man had beeen given a verdict of guilty of second-degree murder because of the shooting in May 2001 of a middle school teacher who has a surname of Grunow (Thompson, 47). The judges sentenced the fourteen-year-old as death penalty. The definition of second degree murder is intentional killing that is not planned. By this, the Brazilian man should not be sentenced as death penalty, but just life without parole. This is because the relationship between the teacher that was killed was deeply close to the student, meaning that there was no problem in any way between the two, and the man only brought gun to school and not intentionally killed the teacher. However, there is some extent that judges’ decision throughout juveniles is just right. In the article On Punishment and Teen Killers, the article explains that a 16 year old man killed a wife and a husband plus an unborn child in Chicago in the year of 1990, when a teenager killed them in the reason of wanting to feel how killing someone is, even though the soon-to-be mother begged on the killer to not kill the unborn child (Jenkins, 49). Cases like this, it is right that this teenager deserves to be sentenced as an adult, as he purposely did this crime due to

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