Sixty percent of teenagers go to prison because of committing malicious crimes, compared to twenty-four percent of adult cases. Juvenile crime rates have drastically increased to about 104,000 arrests for brutal crimes, and about ten percent of these crimes are homicides. If teenagers commit an adult crime, such as murder, they should have to pay adult time by going to prison. Although several people prefer to send teenagers who commit violent crimes to a correctional facility, it is imperative that citizens protect society by putting the teenagers who commit malicious crimes in prison to bring justice to the victim's family. First, teenagers have the ability to comprehend the consequences that will come with committing a crime. Teenagers
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According to science, the frontal cortex in teenagers is not fully developed because it matures as one grows older, but they do know the difference between what they should or should not do ("Decision-Making Is Still a Work in Progress"). Some may say that by putting them in prison it will not "set them straight," but it will just make them reoffend. Doctors have done thorough research, and studies show that when judges try teenagers as adults, they understand how big the consequences are if they would reoffend. Over the span of teenagers' lives, their parents may influence them to commit the crime, but that does not mean that they must obey. They understand that one should not always act on another person's word. Even though a few of these reasons are understandable, there is evidence to prove that our community would be better off if officers would send them to prison. Although there are numerous reasons why one would be against sending juveniles to prison, science and the opinions of others say otherwise. One should be punished for his or her actions no matter his or her age. It is essential that everyone realizes how the community would change and grow to become a better society if officers would send juveniles who commit malignant
According to science, the frontal cortex in teenagers is not fully developed because it matures as one grows older, but they do know the difference between what they should or should not do ("Decision-Making Is Still a Work in Progress"). Some may say that by putting them in prison it will not "set them straight," but it will just make them reoffend. Doctors have done thorough research, and studies show that when judges try teenagers as adults, they understand how big the consequences are if they would reoffend. Over the span of teenagers' lives, their parents may influence them to commit the crime, but that does not mean that they must obey. They understand that one should not always act on another person's word. Even though a few of these reasons are understandable, there is evidence to prove that our community would be better off if officers would send them to prison. Although there are numerous reasons why one would be against sending juveniles to prison, science and the opinions of others say otherwise. One should be punished for his or her actions no matter his or her age. It is essential that everyone realizes how the community would change and grow to become a better society if officers would send juveniles who commit malignant