The Pros And Cons Of Juvenile Delinquency

Under the law depending on the state and with some expectations, being punished for a felony isn’t that simple. Prisoners not only serve their time in jail for the crime that they have committed, but many of them would also lose their rights and opportunities upon their release. For example, they lose their right to vote, their right to bear arms, public social benefits, certain employment opportunities, and are prohibited from certain areas because of their criminal record. This law can be problematic, especially for young people as they are young and are still learning from their mistakes. Yet, there is a possibility that a crime that they have committed when they were younger could still affect them through adulthood. I chose this topic

More specifically, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1,024,000 juveniles was arrested. This is not to say that there is not a high amount of felony conviction that could affect all people from different age group in terms of losing their rights and opportunities, but to say that the outlook is much worse on juveniles than adults. For example, in the case of a 16 years old boy, Jean Karlo Ponzanelli, when it was found that he had sex three times with a 13 years old girl, he was charged with a first degree felony and arrested because under the law anyone younger than 14 years old is a minor. This affected him negatively because now that he has this charge placed upon him, he is now registered as a sex offender. As a sex offender, he was not allowed to be in

However, we never take the time to understand the action to why people are committing the crime that they are committing. More often than not, for someone to go commit a crime, they are triggered by something. Despite this, I also think that the way the current criminal justice system works with young people committing crime and it possibly affecting them all through their life is a little too harsh. I say this because like I mentioned earlier, they are young and still learning. To add on to that, their brain’s is still not developed at the age of 9-14. Technically, according to the University of Rochester, a brain is not fully developed until someone is 25. However, I would say that starting at the age of 15, it is reasonable to say that they now know what they are doing so if they decide to commit a crime, they should pay the full