Often times juveniles are committing first and second degree murder, but they are not being severely punished for it which is not ethical because they are committing a crime that an inhuman crime. Juveniles that commit first and second degree murder should receive a life without parole sentence due to the fact that they are aware of the consequences. This is not something that the Juvenile justice systems should sugar coat because this only make adolescents believe that it is acceptable to murder someone . Juveniles should serve the consequences for their actions because they are aware of the crime they committed and because they are not mentally stable to live free.
To begin with, juveniles should serve the same consequence as an adult because they are aware of the …show more content…
:”On the punishment of teen killers” by Jennifer Jenkins it is stated that the brain development is not the issue because if it was the reason then teens would kill at roughly the same rates all over the world”. In other words teens that murder someone are conscious of what they have done and if teens were given a second chance they are most likely to commit the crime because they will believe that is acceptable for them to murder someone. In the article kids are kids until they commit crimes by Marjie Lundstrom she states that researchers suggests that adolescents squeezed through the adult system are more likely to come out as a violent career criminal”.... This indicates that juveniles who are kept in prison for a while and later they are released are more likely to become more violent individuals which should not be the case, because the point of putting juveniles in prison is so that they come become successful individuals, but in this case it is false because it is to be expected that they do not get any
To begin with, juveniles should serve the same consequence as an adult because they are aware of the …show more content…
:”On the punishment of teen killers” by Jennifer Jenkins it is stated that the brain development is not the issue because if it was the reason then teens would kill at roughly the same rates all over the world”. In other words teens that murder someone are conscious of what they have done and if teens were given a second chance they are most likely to commit the crime because they will believe that is acceptable for them to murder someone. In the article kids are kids until they commit crimes by Marjie Lundstrom she states that researchers suggests that adolescents squeezed through the adult system are more likely to come out as a violent career criminal”.... This indicates that juveniles who are kept in prison for a while and later they are released are more likely to become more violent individuals which should not be the case, because the point of putting juveniles in prison is so that they come become successful individuals, but in this case it is false because it is to be expected that they do not get any