Why or why not?
2006-12-11 13:58:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes,
because our judicial system is a joke.
they only spend a few days in jail or just pay a fine with community service, and don't learn anything.
go out and commit more crime and laugh.
at least that's the impression i get.
2006-12-11 14:04:25 · answer #1 · answered by mburleigh8 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Minors should not be given harsher punishments because often these are mere children who are a product of their environments. They are being raised with little to no supervision by parents that are usually inattentive at best and sometimes substance abusers. These children have often been physically or mentally abused. Obviously, committing a crime is a cry for help, and the state should intervene to ensure that these little people grow into contributing members of society. They should not be dumped back into the ghettos from whence they were brought, because they will fall back into the same crowd, and commit the same mistakes, at even more severe degrees. This is a great quandary facing our society, but punishing the young people who are never really taught right from wrong is not the answer.
2006-12-11 22:07:18 · answer #2 · answered by ~ C ~ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Harsher punishments? Yes. But, I think that first the courts need to find out who actually is culpable. Sometimes, the parents have contributed heavily to creating conditions where criminal activity becomes a possibility for their children.
Other times, a youth falls through the cracks of society and the probability of them committing a crime becomes higher.
There is criteria that often goes without consideration and young offenders many times don't get a fair shake.
There are also offenders (young) who commit and/or are instructed to commit crimes because of their protection by the law.
2006-12-11 23:19:04 · answer #3 · answered by M.C. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because they do not yet have such a clear cut opinion of what is right and what is wrong... It depends on the crime really... I think by 15 a person should know that murder is wrong and if they don't already they probably never will... But things like stealing and whatnot could easily be thwarted through some punishment but not necessarily as strict as for a grown adult.
2006-12-11 22:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps adult sentences should be handed out to the parents of minors who commit crimes.
2006-12-11 22:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The PARENTS should be charged also. For allowing their children to walk the streets at night. For allowing their children, as I saw today, buy drugs from a car in front of a busy highway, in front of their parent's house, for not being fathers to their children and leaving their girlfriends and wives to raise the children by themselves, for men refusing to work, standing on street corners all day and getting drunk, for ignoring their children when they walk outside with their pants down to their knees, wearing stupid and fake! giant gold neck chains, for going to school with NO BOOKS, for dropping out of school as soon as they legally can, for telling everyone their goal in life is to be a rapper, not get a real job. That is, wake up, and grow up!! As Bill Cosby keeps saying, they cannot talk, cannot get an education, cannot get a job - and it is ALL the parents fault!! So lets punish the parents too.
2006-12-11 22:04:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes and no!! why? I'm not sure being that I'm young myself and about a year ago me and my girlfriend was in jail.the offense was home invasion and they tried to give us 15 years. we were 18 at the time and what made it worst was they had no evidence,no proof just some guy that claim that he seen us. other then that I spent about 8 or 9 months in jail and my girlfriend had to stay a whole year.but the point is kids make mistakes and yes
i do believe they should learn for them but why would you won't a child to spend the rest of his life in jail?behind some one bars? what are they NO what are they going to learn by being locked away?they have no well-being,no understanding of life or how to live slash quote on quote fit in with every day life.no it's not far to be albe to take a child from this so called life then yes being that it's away to learn from what they did.but in reality what do you get when you cage a young mind?
2006-12-11 22:22:30 · answer #7 · answered by when you THOUGHT shit matters 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, many minors commit adult sized crimes and receive no
punishment at all...
2006-12-11 22:01:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And get rid of the Young Offender's Act.
2006-12-11 22:01:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Would you be the first one?
2006-12-11 22:00:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋