do you think the law is to soft with young people today.do you think thay should be more hard with them?

Question

i think the law is well to soft with young people today as thay seem to get away with a lot.with what i see some times when thay nik a car,all thay get is dont do it again .if young girls or boys are drinking in the street all the law does it tip in away.
theres loads more.but what do you think should happen and should thay get away with it so lightey

Answer 1

They are definately too soft. The law needs to stop saying Oh they are just kids. These kids arent stupid. They know what they are doing. They also know that the law is going to say Oh they are just kids and dont really know what they are doing so we will be soft on them. A lot of adults are using these kids to do there dirty work because the law is too soft with kids and the kids will be turned loose to do it again. When the government took away parents right to punish their kids it has gone to hell. I mean punish, not beat. If we spanked them they know they can turn in a parent. There hyas been a great increase in teenage crime since they passed a law prohibiting you from spanking a kid.

Answer 2

I do think the law is a little light with the young people. But really, is it fair to throw a 14-year-old in jail for something he may have been talkined into my peer pressure? I think a few months of juvi is good, but not prison, and now for years. I do so believe that they are getting away with too much.
For example, my mom and I are going somewhere in the car, and out of nowhere, this stupid teenage girl starts crossing the street without looking both ways before doing so. We almost hit her. She cussed us out then ran away. If we had hit her, we would have faced years in prison for "murder" when it would have been, actually, the girl's fault for getting in the way of a mobing vihicle.
What if the vihicle couldn't be stopped? Like a train. Trains can not be stopped, or else they are very difficult to stop once they are moving. What if she was walking on train tracks listening to her i-pod really loud and couldn't hear the train coming and it smashes her? Is it the trains fault because trains can't be stopped? Is it her fault for walking on the tracks? Is it the i-pod company's fault for making i-pods too loud?? Too many questions, but my answer is, it was HER faul for not paying attention. We learned that if you stand in the way of a car, they will hit you, they won't politely let you by once they are in motion.
But then that brings up the chance of somebody deliberlatly running someone down with a car. This, is off-topic.

For drinking.. i think boys, and girls should either spend some time in juvi, or their parents should spend some time in jail. Sometimes, it's not the kid's fault. Peer pressure and parenting has a lot to do with it. I'm a kid (teen actually), and I say and nobody under the age 18 has very much responcility for their actions, and SHOULD get punishment.. only lighter than punishment of a person 18 or older.

I don't think kids, should get to get away with things with nothing more than just "don't do it again". They do deserve some punishment. Just nothing too terribly huge.

Answer 3

it needs to be tougher on all age groups because the crime and punishment in this country is pahetic. I don't want the police to go round killing everyone like in the olden days but i think if you do something extreamly bad you need to be punished approiatly. Like i only found this out the other day but i thought you could still be killed if you were trying to bring down britain and the royal family but you can't these days. if I did something against the law i would rather be put in my place then given a samck on the hand and given as asbo which is now scene as a type of award.

Answer 4

It's extremely harsh. In the US, people 18-20 can go to war, get shot, go to prison for life, but not even buy beer.

Also, look at the large number of young people, especially minorities, that are in prison for minor drug posession.

The US prison population is at an all-time high because the laws against young people are so very harsh.

Answer 5

Yes I do, but you have to blame the parents. If a teacher tells a child off and gives them detention, most parents argue with the teachers. When I had the cane at school my mother said "I expect you deserved it" and I did, I knew I had overstepped the mark.
ASBO's have been a failure, you need at least one to get in some gangs. And recent police statistics showed tagged juveniles went on committing crimes while tagged. We need to be tougher, but the problem it costs and we have not got enough prisons - great pity letting Australia run itself.

Answer 6

Not only the law but their parents and schooling needs to be brought back in line. Bring back national service too so we can beat some sense into them.

Answer 7

yep! we should be more stringent in punishing those who violates rules and regulations and let them know the good ness of following law and order, we should start them young and they will learn early in life that following rules and regulations are good and for those that do not follow and violates the rules should be given some very, very hard punishment like a hundred lashes or some few weeks or months in jail. we should remember that the violators of today will be the criminals of the futures.

Answer 8

The 'law' in this nation is too soft on everyone, not just teens. We need law enforcement with teeth in it, like it used to be. Shame on our legislators and law enforcement agencies and the judges!

Answer 9

I think the law is far to soft. It's pathetic really. How can young people learn to be conscientious if they have no real consequences?

Answer 10

The problem is that parents are soft on their children. If you grow up without consequences for your actions, you believe that there will never be consequences. I think the law is too soft on parents who refuse to raise their children.