the others, and face a few years in juvenile detention. Otherwise, he would be transferred to adult court and if he was found guilty, he would spend a much longer time in detention and prison. He decided to take the risk and go to trial (Steinberg). Trying juveniles as adults has always been a controversial topic to the public. There are many different statistics that show different percentages of juveniles being tried as adults. Many people would say that we should be protecting the children and not
rights, but when it comes to juveniles there are no laws to protect them in the juvenile justice system whatsoever. Youth are not able to purchase tobacco until they are 21, they cannot have sexual intercourse until 16, and cannot drink alcohol until 21. Why is it that adolescents have to wait until all these ages to do certain things and aren’t officially considered adults until the age of 18, but there are juveniles as young as four years old being tried as adults? It is only fair that adolescents
significant subpart of this system is the juvenile justice system. Both systems can be regarded as a multifaceted assemblage of various agencies and procedures traditionally established by the government. Additionally, both are set up with
that an individual has a potential to interact with at different times during their life. One of these many systems is the criminal justice system which can be viewed as both a social institution and a system. A crucial subpart of this system is the juvenile justice system. Both systems can be regarded as a multifaceted assemblage of various agencies and procedures traditionally established by the government. It is set up with the purpose of establishing interpretations of the law and the penalties or
anti-JLWOP, and judicial courts. In March 2005, the case Roper v. Simmons, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was a cruel and unusual punishment. This decision received positive feedback, but raised more questions and opinions if life without parole for juveniles is also unconstitutional. According to researchers, roughly 200,000 people under the age of 18 are transferred to the adult criminal system each year. And currently around 2,400 juveniles are serving sentences of