The Importance Of Youth Offenders In California
Like many states, California allows youth offenders as young as 14 to be transferred from the juvenile system to adult courts. In 1996 based on the Frontline Texas study found that juveniles sentenced in adult court did receive longer terms than they would have received in juvenile court. Some people don't know what they are doing until something bad happens, they think parents will always be there to solve the problem. A lot of people go through things that they can't help and it makes them want to commit a crime. They sometimes have the capability to change as adults so why treat them like adults when they are not yet adults. Due to the existence of this rule that juvenile should not be sentenced, it had indirectly encouraged the