Crime Among Minors Research Paper

Due to increase rates among minors, it is evident that the judicial system is not effective and needs more remediation. Looking at history, it seems as though the judicial system was harsher and had deep consequences, as well as short and long term effects, and due to this, society needs to revisit the previous policies and utilize these in current practice. Initially, back then, laws were very strict on young teens/minors, officers, and criminal acts on young teens and adults, especially when young minors commit violence or crimes. Crimes back then were very harsh on the young minors especially due to their young age, they were trying to make them not commit the bad acts. Secondly, law enforcement officers have changed since the late 1800’s; how in today’s world, they become the hot topic of discussions in today’s news. Thirdly, crimes have …show more content…
Since the 1800’s, teens have not gotten the full picture of their lesson, which means knowing that they have consequences for every action and slow, knowing that it is not a good look on them. The reason why young minors learned their lesson back then was due to there not being an actual court for young juveniles. Law enforcement has been the hot topic of them all, which contains policeman’s dragging, shooting, and killing young minors for no reason. For instance, the Trayvon Martin case was a hurtful case because a young boy who was quiet and never bothered anyone, lost his precious life because of a patrol officer who was patrolling the neighborhood assumed that he was a suspect due to him wearing a hooded sweater and his hand were in his jacket. Then, he was stopped by the officer and gunned down at gun point; this however, led to the officer shooting him multiple times in the back for no exact reason. Courts didn’t know who or what to believe because no one was coming