Juvenile Offenders: Should They Face Adult Punishment?

“should juvenile offenders be tried and punished as adults?” I deliberately think that all juvenile offenders should be tried and penalized as an adult because even though they are children, they still should be able to comprehend right from wrong, especially when there are dire situations. Now days children are way more intelligent than you think, with all this new technology, you can’t take anyone for granite. The frequency of young children committing these dreadful crimes has escalated enormously for the past couple of decades. There needs to be some type of justice for these innocent victims that are being affected or even killed by these juvenile offenders. As long as you understand what you did was wrong, then you should be tried and convicted as an adult as well. These juvenile systems let x amount of children off the hook when they reach a certain age, which is outrageous for the reasons of these heinous crimes that these immature children commit.

It really isn’t right to the families of these innocent victims that are being affected or even killed by these juvenile offenders.

These past few years’ juveniles have been off the hook. There has been record numbers of crimes that have been committed by these immature juvenile offenders. This is in fact a scary thing that is happening because it displays how the limitations are being blurred for these young men and women. Many of these young adults are aware of what is going on in this juvenile justice system. They use this to their advantage. According to the Office of Justice Programs, the number of juvenile arrests made in 2012 is over one million which is outrageous. Aggravated assault has the utmost quantity of arrests, then its burglary and the list goes on. If these immature juvenile offenders were tried and penalized as grown-ups to the full level of law, they would unquestionably contemplate twice about pledging a crime or even violating the