Refutation to Policy Statement
Juvenile Crime Punishment (by Ashley Palacios)
The age factor should not be a pivotal issue when it comes to crime, especially the committed crimes that carry such of caliber. The concession to offer lesser sentences for juveniles on the same crimes that are committed by adults, will present a loophole in the justice process. From time to time, the crimes conducted by juveniles even more heinous than average adult law offenders’ crimes. Knowing the fact that some crimes committed by juvenile are so disturbing even for average criminals. Here are some examples:
• In 1968, close to her 11th birthday Mary Bell strangled and mutilated the body of four-year old boy and several months later she continued her sadistic crime by doing the same to another three-year old boy. no remorse, no emotion.
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They put the dead toddler to rail track and a train ran over the dead body.
• In 2007, in India, Amarjeet Sada was eight years old when he caught and revealed the authority where he buried the body of six-month-old baby. He murdered the baby by crashing the baby with a heavy stone. He also admitted to another two murders, eight-year old sister and a nine-month old cousin of his. He strangled the sister and beat up the cousin in the head until they died.
Although, we could bleed our hearts out to see minors have to live their entire life in incarceration, but looking at the fact they also are capable of doing such a crime, we cannot look the other way and pretend it would never happened. To abolish juvenile sentences entirely, not to be tried as an adult, probably not a great idea. Yet, we may look the weight of the crimes committed by the minors and make assessment on how we react upon the prosecution of minors toward their crimes.
Negative
Juvenile Crime Punishment (by Ashley Palacios)
The age factor should not be a pivotal issue when it comes to crime, especially the committed crimes that carry such of caliber. The concession to offer lesser sentences for juveniles on the same crimes that are committed by adults, will present a loophole in the justice process. From time to time, the crimes conducted by juveniles even more heinous than average adult law offenders’ crimes. Knowing the fact that some crimes committed by juvenile are so disturbing even for average criminals. Here are some examples:
• In 1968, close to her 11th birthday Mary Bell strangled and mutilated the body of four-year old boy and several months later she continued her sadistic crime by doing the same to another three-year old boy. no remorse, no emotion.
• …show more content…
They put the dead toddler to rail track and a train ran over the dead body.
• In 2007, in India, Amarjeet Sada was eight years old when he caught and revealed the authority where he buried the body of six-month-old baby. He murdered the baby by crashing the baby with a heavy stone. He also admitted to another two murders, eight-year old sister and a nine-month old cousin of his. He strangled the sister and beat up the cousin in the head until they died.
Although, we could bleed our hearts out to see minors have to live their entire life in incarceration, but looking at the fact they also are capable of doing such a crime, we cannot look the other way and pretend it would never happened. To abolish juvenile sentences entirely, not to be tried as an adult, probably not a great idea. Yet, we may look the weight of the crimes committed by the minors and make assessment on how we react upon the prosecution of minors toward their crimes.
Negative