I'm taking a Criminal Justice course this semester and I was very surprised to hear that, in the U.S. kids (at the age of 14-15-16) most of the time are treated as adults if they commit a murder. They're thrown in prisons (rather than juvenile centers) with adults who are 10, 20, 30 years older than them. They get the same sentence as adults do, which is in most murder cases; serving a life sentence in prison.
Personally, I think this law is unfair. If kids are treated as non adults, as immature people in everything they do. So why not treating them as kids even in the worse cases? Instead of throwing the in prisons for life, why don't we put them in juvenile centers with other kids their age, get them involved in different activities that could make them change in a positive way, have them spend an important amount of time there, make them feel the seriousness of what they did, then set them free!
I just thought I'd share this with you guys, and see what you all think :)
Taha
I agree Taha, it is weird. The U.S. and only like two other countries, I cannot remember who, execute minors. Pretty hypocritical for a civilized democracy that we like to label ourselves as.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that you too share the same opinion. Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about it!
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ReplyDeleteI guess I am undecided on this. It is very controversial subject no doubt. When it is clear that the murder is premedated, I think they should be charged as an adult. (ie: if a child kills his parents and it was in the plan)
justsayin
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