Juveniles Crimes

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Juveniles should be convicted as adults for violent crimes because their are some teenagers that do crimes and they don’t care what they are doing because they think that it’s funny doing all this crimes. For example there are some teenagers that like to do all this crime because they want to know how it feels to do all this crimes. In this quote there is a teenager that murdered a woman and her husband, the woman was pregnant with their first child, she begged for the life of her unborn child as the teenager shot her. The teenager just wanted to “see what it would feel like to shoot someone”.This quote means that the teenager was involved in some other crime or he saw a crime in action because the teen said that he

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