Analysis Of Kids Are Kids Until They Commit Crimes

It’s easy to want to believe that all juveniles are incident and unable to commit a horrible crime intentionally, but this is simply wishful thinking. Should juveniles accused of violent crime’s be tried and sentenced as adults? Well it depends on two main factors, the specific violence and whether or not the child demonstrated a full understanding of what he or she was actually doing. Up until around age 7, children are in a pre-operational way of thinking. In most violent situations juveniles do not comprehend their actions. However, if the juvenile committed a crime that was fully intentional they should not be given a lesser punishment then an adult who committed the same crime just because of their age. If a juvenile didn 't maturely …show more content…
He was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder. It was later discovered that he was not intentionally meaning to kill the 6 year old girl he was just pretending to be a particular world wrestler when he beat the little girl. In cases such as this, it sounds like an accident more than intentional. So, should he have been tried as an adult for this crime? No, I don’t believe he should have because taking her life was not something he had planned to do he was just pretending like children do and took it to far he had no understanding of what he was actually doing and how the moves he made could really hurt someone. His life should not have been completely taken away from him because he was imitating something he had seen. Even at 12 years old children don’t understand that what they see on Television is not always real. It might be argued that because he was 12 years old that he should have understood the consequences of his actions; chances are though that it never crossed his mind that he was much bigger and therefore stronger than the little girl he was playing