If it is inevitable that life sentences could be given to juvenile who has committed serious crimes, then our judges in the juvenile court should be prim, proper and unbiased in decisions such as this. However, there had been cases that cases in which juveniles, while sentenced for their crime, are being subjected to racial prejudice which took account to the sentences of judges of another race apart from the convicted juvenile. According to article, “Jena 6 case highlights injustice: Louisiana investigation found a juvenile justice system in trouble.” Hutchinson, the author, says that according to a survey, Blacks make up forty percent of youths tried in adult courts and nearly sixty percent of those sentenced to state prisons. This questions
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Mann Dave’s article, “Time of Fear...” tells us about a case where a fourteen-year-old Muslim who was arrested for bringing a “bomb” in his school though it was just a clock that he made to impress his science teachers. It was believed to be a bomb because it was in case and being a Muslim, there were probably several connotations that led to this accusation. This hysteria has probably led this Muslim boy into prison without proper court procedures because of the strong assumptions of him being a terrorist. This article relates to Garinger’s article, “Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life Sentences”, where Garinger talks about the entity of the “Superpredators”, a generation of children who has the highest chances of committing murders and other serious crimes. It had been one of the main reasons why there had been increasing cases of life sentenced juveniles in the beginning of the mid-1990s according to Garinger’s article. Even now the paranoia has not been entirely diminished as for the authorities’ call to action in the case of the Muslim boy. The possibility is high that he had been given life sentence out exaggeration and
Mann Dave’s article, “Time of Fear...” tells us about a case where a fourteen-year-old Muslim who was arrested for bringing a “bomb” in his school though it was just a clock that he made to impress his science teachers. It was believed to be a bomb because it was in case and being a Muslim, there were probably several connotations that led to this accusation. This hysteria has probably led this Muslim boy into prison without proper court procedures because of the strong assumptions of him being a terrorist. This article relates to Garinger’s article, “Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life Sentences”, where Garinger talks about the entity of the “Superpredators”, a generation of children who has the highest chances of committing murders and other serious crimes. It had been one of the main reasons why there had been increasing cases of life sentenced juveniles in the beginning of the mid-1990s according to Garinger’s article. Even now the paranoia has not been entirely diminished as for the authorities’ call to action in the case of the Muslim boy. The possibility is high that he had been given life sentence out exaggeration and