If we don’t control our children from their childhood, it may affect the way they function in the future. It’s important to understand from a young age that crime is not the solution to every problem. Often young children start getting involved in crime which leads to an unsuccessful future, filled with committing offenses and becoming a young offender. A juvenile or young offender is a person who has convicted or is cautioned about a criminal offense. This young offender can be a male or female. ACS Distance Education researches have shown that some factors are likely to increase youths becoming involved in committing offenses. Some of the risk factors which affect the youth to committing crime are parental criminality, poor parental
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Simmons is a case where respondent, Christopher Simmons committed murder at the age of seventeen. He was later tried and sentenced to death at the age of eighteen. In 1993, Christopher Simmons and one of two friends participated in entering a home where they robbed a woman, tied her up and threw her off a nearby bridge. Respondent was aware of this activity as he planned the entire crime. Christopher, a high school teenager at that time bragged about the killing and later confessed which resulted in his arrest. Fagan and West mention in their article that deciding the death penalty to juveniles under the age of eighteen is arduous because of the lack of developmental and functional immaturity. We can compare that the lack of maturity in a minor can affect the way they make decisions, like Christopher. The main issue with this case is whether it was permissible under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution to execute a juvenile offender who is older than fifteen but younger than eighteen when committing a capital crime. In regards to Stanford VS. Kentucky (1989), which helped the case Roper VS. Simmons, the court examined that capital punishment sentences for minors ages sixteen and seventeen did not violate any rights of the 8th
Simmons is a case where respondent, Christopher Simmons committed murder at the age of seventeen. He was later tried and sentenced to death at the age of eighteen. In 1993, Christopher Simmons and one of two friends participated in entering a home where they robbed a woman, tied her up and threw her off a nearby bridge. Respondent was aware of this activity as he planned the entire crime. Christopher, a high school teenager at that time bragged about the killing and later confessed which resulted in his arrest. Fagan and West mention in their article that deciding the death penalty to juveniles under the age of eighteen is arduous because of the lack of developmental and functional immaturity. We can compare that the lack of maturity in a minor can affect the way they make decisions, like Christopher. The main issue with this case is whether it was permissible under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution to execute a juvenile offender who is older than fifteen but younger than eighteen when committing a capital crime. In regards to Stanford VS. Kentucky (1989), which helped the case Roper VS. Simmons, the court examined that capital punishment sentences for minors ages sixteen and seventeen did not violate any rights of the 8th