There are many people who believe that juveniles delinquents should be treated as adults because they should know better …show more content…
Without guidance the deeds they commit can turn around and destroy their foundation of youth. Most children need special care and guidance to not stray off their course of development. The care that is shown to these juveniles is there to help them achieve a successful return to their family and friends, and to help reduce further offending in the future. Adults should be able to control their actions and understand the boundaries of right and wrong and this is something most juveniles don’t necessarily have. By the course of misjudgment or want from something as small as a toy to as big as love juveniles could make a choice they don’t understand at the moment they commit it. For example, Lionel Tate “savagely beat to death a six-year-old girl” because he thought the way he did it was similar to his favorite wrestler and therefore led him to a case of juvenile injustice. (Marjie