all influence these times of transition for the juvenile. It is sometimes accompanied by a desire for material things, fashion, peer pressure, cash and more. At times, the demands of wants and needs are intensified by a society that consists of high mobility, social change, and is materialistic. Growing up Lolita had no positive role model in her life, she had a mother who was addicted to crack and her father was absent her whole life. Growing up with no father can really alter a child’s life. Its cause them to go down the wrong path but in Lolita case she had no one depend on and she was always out to get it on her own, psychological effects of our childhood experiences can have an outsized impact on who we become later in life. Ben Spencer says “Growing up without a father could permanently alter the structure of the …show more content…
I believe that kids have time to mature and after a certain age we realize right from wrong and obviously, murder is not something right. There should be serious consequences for a juvenile committing murder and I think that life in prison would be unfair. If your found guilty of a crime you should expect consequences no matter what your age is. Juveniles deserve therapy to find out what went wrong in their life. Therapy will find out if the child has mature or not. Therapy assumes that most juveniles can become conscious of their own thoughts and behaviors and then make positive changes to them. A juvenile's thoughts are often the result of experience, and behavior is often influenced and prompted by these thoughts. In addition, thoughts may sometimes become distorted and fail to reflect reality accurately. Juveniles entering the criminal justice system can bring a number of serious problems with them substance abuse, academic failure, emotional disturbances, physical health issues, family problems, and a history of physical or sexual abuse. Girls make up nearly one-third of