When a young person commits a violent crime, resulting in a death of an innocent person, how many lives should be lost? For example, Nathaniel Brazill was a 14 year old boy who was tried as an adult and was found guilty of a second degree murder for killing his teacher. Due to this concept, teens should be tried as adults because they need to be more accountable for their actions. Many people who favor teenagers should be sentenced to life in prison, argue that we must first consider the victims. In the article, "On Punishment and Teen Killers" Jenkins states, "Not a dime has been allocated for victim outreach or support." It is not fair how the juvenile justice system spends millions of dollars to try to stop juveniles from committing crimes, but the justice system doesn't spend a dime on the victim's family.
Many juveniles don't have control for their actions or don't think before they have already committed the crime. Jenkin states, "When a teenager murdered her and her husband in 1990 in suburban Chicago, she was pregnant with their first child." This shows how the juvenile wasn't controllable for their actions and did not have any sympathy for the women that was pregnant when he murder her. Juveniles are aware of the crime they committee for example Jennifer Jenkins article "On punishment and teen killers" his sister's murder "reported to a friend, who testified at his trial, about his "thrill kill" that he just wanted to "see what it would feel like to shoot someone." The juvenile was aware of what he was doing because he expressed it to a friend who as well testified it in court. People will kill just to kill with or without having a reason for it. Now the victims family will suffer the consequence. .
Society needs to prevent teenagers from committing heinous crime. Jenkins states, "Some persons will shun crime even if we do nothing to deter them, while others will seek it out even if we do everything to reform them.
