Essay: Why Felonies Should Be Charged As Adults

One day, a little 15 year old boy was giving his little baby brother a bath. When he was washing his baby brother, he splashed hot water and soap in his eyes, and he got mad and grab his baby brother and drowned and killed him. There’s a debate, in the United States that how young teens, who commit felonies should be charged as adults do to this case. While some people believe that teens who commit felonies shouldn’t be charged as adults because they should be able to learn from their mistake and make better life choices , rather than teens who commit felonies should be charged as adults because they cannot make up for their mistake and they do not know what there are doing , most of them don’t know but some of them do .

No, teens shouldn’t be charged because it is a felony that they have on the …show more content…
Felony crimes are those crimes that are more serious than misdemeanors and generally carry fines, jail time, and probation conviction penalties because of where they live at and it can affect them and on most teens. Teen felony crimes are prosecuted differently than adult crimes in some ways. It is also possible for a teen felony suspect to be tried as an adult in the eyes of the law but teen do not know any better. The changing composition of the population and other social forces such as economics, education, and health care have a considerable impact on the juvenile justice system and influence the way that teen felony crimes are prosecuted and punished. The main way that teen felony crimes are analyzed is by investigation of arrest statistics. This means that teen felony acts that go unreported are not often factored into the information available regarding teen felony crimes. The crimes most often committed by teen felony offenders often involve some sort of property offense such as arson, vandalism, motor vehicle theft and other similar teens felony