In the war many children are enlisted to fight. They are instructed to injure innocent people such as strangers and possibly even family members. What shocks people the most about this is that children, who are all under the age of 18, are completing these harsh acts. Enlisting into the war as a child soldier could end with prosecution or no punishment. Children are forced by commanders through false promises, drugs, and things that are difficult to picture.…
Furthermore, this resulted in peer pressure influencing soldiers to fight. Soldiers felt like if the didn’t enlist that they could not be taken seriously back home. Some would even write home with the names of people that they considered cowards just to shame them. If neither of the aforementioned reasons pushed a soldier to enlist, it would certainly be to improve the honor of his family. McPherson explains that soldiers would rather die than disgrace their family name.…
Shock Incarceration & Boot Camp Programs Shock incarceration in “boot camps” have been around quite some time as a substitute for sentencing young offenders instead of sending them to prison. These boot camps have some advantages to them but also have some disadvantages as well. Some positive aspects of boot camps are that the offenders are not being sent to overcrowded prisons, at this boot camps the offenders are mandated to participate in programs that will rehabilitate these youthful offenders, the boot camps help teach discipline and positive behavior and has proven be less costly than incarceration in a standard prison. One disadvantage to boot camps is that they are considered as a quick fix and that these youthful offenders will be…
People who are exposed to combat in war will change their entire lives. In the novel, Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, the story is set during the Vietnam War. The story includes a character named Richie, who has been drafted to war at a very young age. The novel shows how soldiers who go to war change because they are exposed to new experiences. Fallen Angels shows how people who go to war become a different person through religion.…
A child soldier will join the army or rebel group because they have nowhere…
Introduction Adult boot camps, also called “shock incarceration” programs, were first implemented in Georgia and Oklahoma in the early 1980s (Guerrero, 2009, p.73). They are short-term residential facilities with programs that resemble those within a military basic training camp. The purpose of these camps is to scare or “shock” an individual away from participating in criminal behavior by placing them in a harsh physical environment. In late 1990s, third-generation boot camps began to rise and are still used today. These camps incorporate drug and alcohol treatment programs and emphasize an aftercare component when individuals are released back into society (as seen in the Alabama boot camp program).…
Should Juveniles Be Sentenced to Life Without Parole? When adults commit crimes, they are held accountable; but what if a teenager or child commits the same crime? On June 25, 2012, a controversy heated in the Supreme Court between the majority and 4 judges. The majority of the judges believes that it shouldn’t be mandatory for juveniles to be sentenced to life without parole when they commit a heinous crime such as murder, while the other 4 judges oppose to that, saying it should be mandatory for juveniles to be sentenced to life without parole.…
As a Society, we emphasize that children are our future and how they have the potential to keep changing the world, which is why we must invest in their future. However, it seems that those children that are classified or seen as deviant are not a part of that vision of having the potential to make a positive impact. Therefore, their life does not matter, which is why they get lost in a system and carry a mentality that they do not matter. A major purpose of prison is to cause rehabilitation, being able to allow these individuals incarnated to become enable them to be a law abiding citizen. Even though, that is the purpose of prison if it is not working for adults then we must have a better solution for our youth because once they age out of…
In the world today there are a total of 300,000 child soldiers in use. Not only that but also, 40% of militias, military, and terrorist groups use children . The problem with all these child soldiers is not only getting rid of them but also whether or not they should not be punished. They should be given amnesty because, they are forced into this life, put on narcotics by the leaders, and brainwashed to believe what they're doing is right. Many children are forced into this life due to things like poverty or peer pressure.…
Children come into this world in hopes of being the future of this world, but they never imagine themselves as stone cold killers. The dilemma of child soldiers has spread to hundreds of countries around the world and has no intention of slowing. Now, an estimated 300,000 children fight wars under the forceful hand of local militias that care none for the people they effect. They suffer the cruelest of things during their time as a child soldiers, the effects are frightening including all sorts of trauma that they may never recover from. Now these child soldiers have grown up and are looking for redemption in the new world but first are being prosecuted for their crimes as warlords.…
Imagine this. You are happily married with an amazing son who is your whole world. He is currently fourteen years old and nothing could be better. One day he is peer pressured into holding a gun for a friend who claims it is no big deal. His friend tells him to shoot if anyone comes around the corner while he breaks into the closed store.…
The officials of the boot camp programs started them with several goals and objectives to attain after their completion. To begin with, they aim at reducing overcrowding in jails. They believed that boot camps are the most effective solutions for overcrowding since the time taken was shorter that that spend in the normal prisons. However, they only served a small number of individuals. The second goal was to reduce the repeat of similar crimes.…
Moreover, many of the younge criminals come from families without education or where daily violence within the family is present. They may have been influenced by family members or friends in committing a crime and do not have the maturity to understand the actions. They may have been helping a crime to be committed without committing it themselves. It is cruel and unusual to leave young individuals within prison walls for their entire lives. Indeed, the aim of being imprisoned should not be punishment but to reeducate them in order for them to understand what the correct values to follow are and to give them an opportunity to improve themselves.…
Children who commit serious crimes should have a chance to be rehabilitated. I think they should work to earn their freedom back. Military school could be an option, there they would learn how to be disciplined and they would be worked until they could become model citizens. For those that don’t want to cooperate,…
Today, more youths are involved in gangs, murders, and assaults than history has shown. So, if these children are capable of committing adult crimes, shouldn’t they face adult consequences? It seems that the severity of juvenile crime has risen so much, that it is hard to distinct it from adult crimes. On the other hand, most adult offenders we find today, who commit murder or assault are not first time offenders. The unfortunate thing is that a survey given by the Pretrial Services Resource Center found that an astonishing number of juveniles in adult facilities were charged with nonviolent crimes (ABCNews.com: Juveniles in Adult Jails.…