Should Criminals of 12-17 Be Tried As Adults?
Mar 2, 2020 9:36:30 GMT 10
Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 9:36:30 GMT 10
Mar 1, 2020 10:32:56 GMT 10 @slowpoke1993 said:
They should get detention at school rather be criminally prosecuted tbh. That sounds excessive.You say they know what they're doing, yet I doubt they would give you a hard time if they were 23 or 33. It was a textbook example of childish behaviour.
If you want to talk about ineffective, sending kids to jail has actually proven to make things worse. They meet more of their kind there and move on to higher level crimes. That's not to mention how depriving them of education turns them into adults who can't make money off an honest living, which forces them to get into crime/drugs as a source of a livable income. (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/juvenile/stats/kidslikeadults.html)
Also I don't know about Australia but over here detention is usually a few hours on the weekend. I would be for getting them to attend night school classes or Saturday school too. Helping them find a part time job would also encourage them to take responsibility for themselves and provide a healthy environment for them to learn action and consequences.
Mar 2, 2020 4:23:29 GMT 10 @mamafrankie said:
'I doubt they would give you a hard time if they were 23 or 33'.Troublesome teenagers grow into troublesome adults.
Untrue. Men aged 15-24 commit the most crimes. After 30 or so crime rates drop off significantly as testosterone levels and resulting risk-taking/violent behaviour tapers off. Many troublesome teens do not turn into troublesome adults.
Statistics for Canada www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/state-etat/2019rpt-rap2019/p7.html
Police-reported data show that young adults aged 18 to 24 have the highest rates of criminal offending compared with other age groups (Allen, 2016). In 2014, crime rates were highest among young adults (5,428 per 100,000 young adults), followed by youth aged 12 to 17 (4,322 per 100,000 youth). Rates for both young adults and youth were more than twice as high as the rate for adults aged 25 and older (2,048 per 100,000 adults aged 25 and older).
