Should Juveniles be tried as adults? Essay

Campaign for youth justice “placing juveniles in the adult criminal justice system is counterproductive” juvenile Crime. Ed. Louise I.Gerdes. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Opposing view points.Rpt. from “jailing juveniles: the danger of incarcerating youth in adult jail in America

McCrea Hannah “juveniles should Not Be Tried in Adult Court.” Should juveniles be tried as adults? Ed. Judy Layzei. San Diego : Greenhaven Press, 2005. At issue. Rpt. From “ A double Standard for American juveniles. “ the seminal.com . 2007. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Thursday. 10 April. 2014

Should Juveniles be tried as adults?

Should juveniles be tried as adults? Many juveniles have been placed in adult jails and have been tried as adults. They have been in risk of physical and sexual assault, and most of them are younger than 17 and 15 stopping their education, because of many reasons I believe that juveniles should not be tried as adults and not be sended to adult jail.

When juveniles are placed in adult jail they are in risk of physical and sexual assault according to the “(U.S Department of Justice Bureau of justice statistics (BJS) in 2005 and 2006)”. “21% and 13% respectively of the victims had sexual violence in jails , youth under the age of 18”(juvenile crime ,page 1). Showing us how placing juveniles in jail with adults is putting youth in risk. Many children as young as 13 years old have been tried as adults according to “(Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)” “ EJI believes confinement of children with adults in jails and prisons is indefensible, cruel, and unusual, and it should be banned”.(EJI ,page 1). Young people who have been in prison since they were adolescents need help learning basic life skills. Juveniles stop their education when they are send to adult prisons. There is a lack of education and training when juveniles are send to prison, many jails do not have the capacity to provide the necessary education and other programs crucial for the healthy development of juveniles.

For example according to a” (BJS survey)” “40% of jails provide no educational services at all only 11% of jails provided special education services and only 77% provided vocational training” this is evidence of how many juveniles that are transferred to the adult system don’t receive the education they are supposed to receive and those who are prosecuted in adult court are more likely to be rearrested more often for serious offenses. . However others may disagree and think that sending juveniles to adult jail and tried them as adults is the best in the article “(The Justice Should not make age based exceptions)” “Morals are inherent from birth, the acknowledgement of right from wrong and the respect of fallowing those lines are unchangeable foundations person is build upon from the beginning, people either have morals or they don’t”. saying that the juveniles don’t know or are not clear of what is right or wrong shouldn’t be a scuse for not treating them as adults because its their parents responsibility to teach them since they are born the right and wrong things in life.

I still believe that juveniles should not be tried as adults, many children as young as 13 years old have been tried as adults and sentenced to die in prison, typically without any consideration of their age or circumstances of the offense. In the article “( children in adult Prison)” “ EJL argued in the united states supreme court that death in prison sentences imposed on children are unconstitutional and the court has now banned death in prison sentences for children convicts”. As you can see juveniles should not be tried as adults, for many reasons and some of them are, when juveniles are placed with adults in jails they are in risk of sexual abuse and many children as young as 13 years old have been tried as adults and by placing them in adult jails as such a young age their education stops