What do you think about the sentencing of juveniles as adults?

Answer 1

unsure..

since most want to be considered adults well why not?

this is where the line crosses.. suddenly those who wish to be taken seriously as an adult.. if they are in a situation where their lives are on the line for their actions.. wish not to be considered as an adult when it comes to prosecution.

i know what they did they did on their own or peer pressure or some other situation.. but they should know wrong from right and if they don't... there's just so many factors...

you can blame the parents.. society, the politicians...

but i'm unsure... there's never enough programs to help youth.. and when they get into serious trouble where they have to be convicted... it's almost over for most of them... the risk factors of them doing something again and again go up.

very few escape and can go on with a normal life with a career. they work the hardest and it still comes back to haunt them and some do take a fall and go back to their prior life of failure and criminal acts.

hard points to be taken here i'm not sure if anyone listens to them over all.. politicians talk big when it comes election time but when they're in those warm seats and nice offices... suddenly things slow to a crawl and people/children get lost in the system and become statitics... for us to rely upon and hope that we don't become them.

that's just horrible.

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Answer 2

There are situations where it is appropriate. If a 17 year old goes to his high school and starts killing classmates, I don't think it would be right to release him at 18. You are old enough to know right from wrong, do the crime, do the time. By the same token, I don't think it appropriate to imprison him with older hardened criminals. He'd just become somebody's boy toy. While the parents of the victims may not have a problem with that, I do. There should be a seperate prison for juveniles tried and convicted as adults. Move them into the general prison population when they are older.

Answer 3

Depends on their age! I think most children and young adults unquestionably know right from wrong by time they are 12 years of age! A lot of these kids getting into serious trouble these days falls back unto the parents ability to raise children and the meaning of dissapline! I'm all for the sentencing program and think it should be expanded to hold the parents more accountable too! It really boils my blood when I go to the mall and it's overwhelmed with teenagers just dropped off for hours at a time to run totally unsupervised! It's just the parents getting them out of their hair. Then ask yourself, Why did I have children if I didn't want to assume the responsibility?? The key word here is "responsibility" on the part of everyone-child and parents!!!!!!!!
I can only say they're lucky I'm not the judge! They would definitely learn their lesson first time around and become model citizens after that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

If you look at the increased number and the types of crimes committed by " teens", Yes, they do need to be treated as adults. Look at Columbine and many other schools where killings occurred. They must take responsibility for their actions. If you are going to act like an adult, do adult crimes, then spend adult time in prison.

The sad part is most of these kids didn't have a home life, many didn't respect themselves or anyone else. It is too easy to blame everyone else but when it comes right down too it, you go and get the weapon, make the plan and pull the trigger.

Answer 5

I believe that cruel acts that took planning and the desire to hurt somebody should land a little kid in an adult prison. With kids thinking they can go to a juvenile facility and its no big deal i feel that they commit the crime because they do not see that as a big punishment. I think that if they know that they will go to a adult prison where they can but molested then they will opt not to do the crime.

Answer 6

Depends on their prior activity and the type of crime they have committed. If they steal a candy bar then they should be tried and executed as juveniles. If they steal a car it would depend on the type they stole and if they committed murder then they should be tried and executed as a juvenile and as an adult.

Answer 7

considering the crime, I think that it is more that appropiate to sentence juveniles as Adults..Children committing crime, they are getting younger and younger, and to top that off they have NO supervision. Either that or have the parents do the time...

Answer 8

Kids are taught right from wrong when they are little and as they grow, they see and hear about other people going to jail or prison for crimes.

If they commit a violent crime, they need to be tried and sentenced as an adult. You can try to blame it on their raising, bad childhood, or anything else. You have to be responsible for your actions.

Hey, drug dealers and gangs us young kids as lookouts, carrying drugs and even committing crimes cause they are less likely to get a serious sentence.

Make them responsible and when they see and hear their friends gone for 20 plus years, they will think twice about doing crimes.

Answer 9

If they are old enough to commit the crime they deserve the same punishment. Just because a juvenile kills someone doesn't make that person any less dead.

Answer 10

If the crime they committed required forethought and was completely heinous, than I have no problem with it. A bad kid will eventually be a bad adult. The ratio of "saved" kids is too small to be of any use to our society, which is pretty much on the verge of a cultural collapse as it is.