Argumentative Essay: Should Minors Be Tried?

The reason children who are minors should be tried as adults are to keep society safe and better off. The average ages for juvenile delinquents to commit crimes is usually between the ages of fifteen to nineteen(From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending), which means they have had at least fifteen years to learn what’s right and wrong. And even then they are seen as to be rehabilitated instead of simply tried and sentenced. If a minor can commit murder, he or she should be sentenced just as much as someone who has done the same crime but is eighteen and no longer a minor. If a seventeen year old can be tried for in juvenile court why should someone who just turned eighteen be tried in criminal court, they both should have to face criminal …show more content…
Children nowadays aren’t innocent as they are perceived to be. A ten year old or seventeen year old murdering his parents shouldn’t be seen as they didn’t know better, they both knew what they were doing and what would be the outcome of committing this crime, yet they still did it. Yes there are children that do not want to be obedient to their parents, those kids need to be rehabilitated and set straight, but setting a murderer to get better or a rapist to get better is a much higher offense then skipping school or stealing chips from a nearby store. Those individuals should be tried as adults and sentenced as an adult. The court system shouldn’t be deciding on how old the criminal is or who they are, instead they should see what the crime is and create sentences accordingly. There is evidence that if children go through early intervention programs in their early childhood, such as preschool enrichment programs, home visits by nurses and higher authority, or even parent management training, these methods are very effective in preventing early age delinquency. (From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult