Minors Should Never Be Tried as Adults.
In our judicial system today, there are currently two classifications a person can fall under when being tried in court. When a person is tried, he will fall under the category of either an adult or a minor. However, things in the judicial system are changing. Kids who would normally be considered a minor are now beginning to be tried as an adult. It seems to be plain and simple, a minor in this country is defined as a person under the age of eighteen. How, then, can we single out certain minors and call them adults? Were they considered adults before they carried out an act of violence? No. How then, did a violent act cause them to cross over a line that is defined by age? The current debate over juvenile crime is being dominated by two voices: officials proposing quick-fix solutions, and a media more intent on reporting violent crimes than successful prevention efforts. Minors should never be tried as adults in our society today. This is obvious through looking at propositions by our government, statistics on juvenile crime, and also from specific cases where minors where sentenced in adult courts.
Politicians feel the best and easiest solution is to simply lock up youth offenders for long periods of time and ignore rehabilitation. Most studies reveal that putting young offenders in adult prisons leads to more crime, higher prison costs, and increased violence. Yet, we are spending more and more on corrections, and less on prevention efforts. Some states spend more on corrections than they do on higher education. The cost of keeping juveniles in prison as compared to putting them into rehabilitation programs is considerably higher. The average cost of sentencing a juvenile for one year costs about 92 % more than intervening with the child per year. Also, the effectiveness of prisons to prevent juveniles from becoming repeated offenders is low.
In this paper, I shall begin to sketch a Deweyan account of the central virtues of character. I call it Deweyan because it draws heavily on discussions of character development in Dewey's educational writings such as Democracy and Education.(1) It is not however Dewey's own theory. And this invites ...
As young adult nearing graduation from high school, the natural progression should be college, military, work, or marriage. ... Adults access the ever changing would they live in and trying to find order. ... Cyclical change is the continuous flow of change and the way the adult should cope with it. ... Most adults think they can work through this while making minor adjustments, never with a major overhaul. ... In the linear view education should be completed when you are a young adult. ...
(Darroch, Jacqueline 1) For the opposite, an adult should very well have more experience than a minor, and is more likely able to live independently, then a minor who is most likely still living with their parents, and attending school. ... But in most cases, unexpected pregnancies with a minor and adult show that in the "US, men are generally somewhat older than their female sexual partners."... There is less love and caring, and so the child grows up not knowing what is right from wrong, and will try things they never knew about. ... (Westphal, Sylvia 4) If already involved in a p...
The government should not be able to pick and choose what will be regulated when a minor reaches the age of adulthood, it should be all or nothing. From the day you turn eighteen, you are no longer a minor in the eyes of the government, or so they say. ... This gives the new adult a voice in the government that was never an option before the age of eighteen. ... And in accordance with these great abilities you are also now tried as an adult in the court of law. ... If we are old enough to deal with the consequences of killing another person as adults, then we should be allowed to deal with...
The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 years old and young adults should be allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs, and official school and university functions. ... Alcohol is neither seen as a poison or a magic potent, there is little or no social pressure to drink, irresponsible behavior is never tolerated, young people learn at home from their parents and from other adults how to handle alcohol in a responsible manner, there is societal consensus on what constitutes responsible drinking. ... At 18 they"re considered adults. ... An 18 year...
The law prohibits the use of a minor in the making of pornographic, picture of a minor, and the production and circulation of materials advertising child pornography. ... While adults should have limitless access to Internet porn, minors should be kept away from this. ... If made into law, the CDA could severely censor the Internet in ways that were never attempted before. ... In addition, never meet with anyone face to face from which they have met off the Internet. ... Sites will be censored by a certain code that is relayed to the computer when the Internet navigator tries to enter the s...
Plagiarism is a crime that should be punished to the full extent of the law. ... They never learn how good it feels to earn a reward through hard work, and as a result their work ethic suffers greatly. ... Soon the adult work force will be pumped full of people incapable of thinking for themselves and working for others. Students look at plagiarism as a minor infraction instead of the crime that it is. ... Teachers aren't trying to catch students to make their lives hell, they are trying to save them from giving up on themselves. ...
If juveniles are tried and punished along the same standards as adults, there is a good chance that their future occupation will be a hardened criminal. ... Today youths are committing such violent crimes that this juvenile system has no way of punishing these minors to a justifiable degree. Therefore many people say that a minimum age at which minors could be charged as adults for certain crimes needs to be defined. ... My personal belief is that juveniles should not be tried and punish in accordance to adults. ... Yet I also think that it should be under the opinion of judge whether a chil...
Studies found that youth's were 3 times more likely to offend if tried as an adult. ... Because of this, the juvenile court waived its jurisdiction, which enabled Kent to be tried as an adult. ... Many people argued whether or not it was right for Kent to be tried as an adult. ... A counter-argument to that was that the mind of a minor is not fully developed, and that he was not able to decipher his actions, so therefore if he was an adult would have more control over them. ... The government needs to understand the mental state, as well as the underdeveloped brain adolescence may have be...
