With as much as 200,000 young adults entering the adult justice system each year, many controversies arise regarding whether such treatment fits the crime. Many troubled adolescents are thrown into the adult jails for decades; thus, the current justice system has a reputation for meeting juvenile crime with harsh sentencing. In our society, we treat those under the age of eighteen as children, so why do we treat these children as adults when they commit a crime? According to biological and psychological research, the brain of an adolescent is not fully developed; thus, they are unable to realize the severity of their crimes before they execute it. They are blinded by the immediate satisfaction of their actions that they do not factor in the
