Should Juveniles Be Tried As Adults
Juvenile criminals, conscious adults or underdeveloped children? When you're dealing with children who committed a crime such as murder, it is hard to judge if whether they should be tried as an adult or as a child. I think that juveniles should be tried as adults because if children brain development was the reason they kill others, then they teens would kill at around the same rate around the world. First, if children are not tried as adults and are released there is no telling if they will continue to do criminal acts or not. In an article by Gail Garner “Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentences” he says that “it is impossible at the time of sentencing for mental health professionals to predict which youngsters will fall within that majority