Juvenile Criminals

Teens convicted of murder should be able charged as juveniles because their brain has not yet finished being developed and they may still have a chance of turning their life around by being rehabilitated. teenagers are still at an early point in their life and it is very possible that they will rehabilitate and become better people. Impulse control, according to Laura Sanders, is the “ability to overcome our emotions so that we don’t react in ways we shouldn’t” (Fear Prompts Teens to Act Impulsively). According to a study done by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College, People between the ages of thirteen to seventeen were found to have poor impulse control than the other participants in the study. The study found that a section of the brain called the orbital frontal cortex is responsible for making sure one’s impulse reacts appropriately. Seeing as how the teenage brain is still developing, teenagers aged thirteen to seventeen have poor impulse …show more content…
Which means that the context of the crime or background of minor is not taken into account. The automatic punishment is life in prison without the chance for parole. Teenagers are thought to be “more likely candidates for rehabilitation” (Totenberg). Teenagers being thought to be more likely to rehabilitate further helps state that life without parole is not a fair sentence. Life without parole means that the person sentenced is sentenced to live the rest of their life in prison without any hope of getting out. Teenagers have the rest of their lives ahead of them and with the possibility of rehabilitating and turning their life around, giving them this sentence makes no sense. “A brief filed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators and other juvenile crime experts points to many amazing cases of rehabilitation.” There is already proof of former juvenile delinquents turning their life around and becoming better