You did the crime you pay the time!

Joel Sanchez

What is a juvenile?
A juvenile is young person.

Juveniles today:
Listen to violent music and watch violence on television. Their minds
are being filled with all this violence which is generating an image in
there head to do the same out here in the real world. They feel as if
they should act the same way the character on television acts
without being no consequences.
It is said that before the age of 2 children know the difference
between right and wrong, but yet still everyday juveniles are
committing crimes that they know would get them in trouble and
locked up behind bars.

Juvenile court history:

In the 1990s when virtually every state expanded the rule under
which juvenile offenders could be charged as adults, meaning if
they committed a crime like murder they would be tried as an adult
instead of as a teenager.
In 2005 the Supreme Court ruled that life in prison without parole,
was the most significant punishment a juvenile could suffer for
committing any crime.

Cases:
In 2005 in the Supreme Court case of Roper v. Simmons, a young
man named Christopher Simmons with a couple of his friends
planned on breaking in a house and murdering the victim. They
entered through a cracked window and managed to unlock the
backdoor. Simmons then turns on a hallway light which caused Mrs.
Crook to wake up. She happened to see Simmons, so what they did
was duct taped her eyes, mouth, hands, and drove her in her own
minivan to a state park. There they tied up her hands and feet
together with electrical wires, this time duct taped her whole face,
and threw her off a bridge, which led her to drown. On September
9th her husband returned from a trip to find his room a disaster. Mr.
Cook reported his wife missing that day.

Cases (cont.)
In Oklahoma two teenagers shot and killed a college Australian
baseball player that was going out for a jog. The two teenagers said
that they committed the murder because they were bored. They
were both charged with first degree murder and ordered held
without parole.

Juvenile Arrest
Every year the FBI arrest more than 33,000 young adults under the
age of 18 for different offences, 10% of those 33,000 are teens that
have committed a homicide.
According to the Office of Juvenile justice and Delinquency Prevention,
in 2003 the number of juveniles murder offenses increased 30%.
By the age of 23, 41% of american adolescents have been arrested at
least once for something other than a minor traffic violation.

Why they should be punished?

Light sentences do not teach kids the lesson they need to learn. If you
commit a terrible crime you should spend a considerable part of
your life in jail.
Its not fair how the juvenile justice system feels sorry for juveniles
that commit crime but what about the families of the victim they
murdered or raped, who is going to feel sorry for them that one of
their loved ones is gone because of some childish juvenile decided
to drink alcohol, smoke, and couldnt control themselves so they
ended up doing something that could ruin their whole life

Scared Straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS_og5jQLhc

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SLE

Thank you for your time

As Elizabeth Fry once said Punishment is
not for revenge but to lessen crime and
reform the criminal.