Minors Should Have Equal Rights Of Equality In The United States

One side argues that regardless of the age, crimes are still crimes. Just because a child commits the crime doesn’t mean that the victim didn 't indeed suffer from it. Juveniles should be tried as adults because it will not only make

Cyberbullying is caused by poor privacy settings. Some say that teens should have the same privacy rights as adults. However, they are ignoring the fact that by giving them more privacy rights it’s giving them more of a chance to put unnecessary information out there. Once teens have more privacy rights they are more likely to get cyber bullied online. “Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass threaten, embarrass, or target another person,” and it is not safe for teens to have same privacy rights as adults do for this reason. (Kids.gov A Safe Place to Learn and Play) The importance of not giving teens that same privacy rights as adults is to help protect teens from cyberbullying. There has been over 25% of bullying in the US repeatedly

Between 1990 and 2010 the number of juveniles in adult jails went up by nearly 230%. Now about a tenth of confined young people are in an adult prison or jail. Minors shouldn’t be charged as adults, but it does make a little sense.

Children are not grown-ups. Not just for the reason that their brains don't work the same as a grown-ups. but because,it wouldn't be sensible for kids to be attempted as adults When we don't take them into consideration.Plus,kids can't enroll in the military, drink,drive,smoke,we don't even permit them to vote; so why would it be a

The current legislation in place is a 200-year-old law. A 16-year-old can’t vote or buy cigarettes so why should they have adult privileges in the criminal

There are many controversial issues in the United States the idea that children of ages 10-16 years old should be tried as adults. I say that if the child is capable of knowing what they are doing at the moment, they should be punished the same, not given light punishments just because of their age, many people may not agree with this statement because they think that children are rebels and if you warn them once they will understand the next time. Yet, some individuals will not care what is told to them and will keep on doing what they want because they believe that they will never get caught for their wrongdoings. Many youngsters are stubborn and do not like to admit that they are wrong, so they fall into the wrong path because it is easier and faster to get what they want.

Court systems are left with difficult decisions. A controversial decision courts are faced with today is whether or not juveniles are to be tried as adults. The increasing number of incarcerated children in adult jails raises questions as to why. Adolescents sentenced to prison are more likely to be abused, commit suicide, or reoffend, thus committing more serious offenses. The statutes requiring juveniles to enter adult prisons are inhumane and in-just. Nevertheless, sentencing children to adult prisons continues regularly today. When adolescents commit crimes, they should be tried as juveniles rather than adults.

Charles Keene was killed on the morning of January 23, 1983. His body was found in the Washita river of Grady County, Oklahoma, tied to a concrete block. He had been brutally beaten, shot, and stabbed several times. The murderers, a team of four, were ultimately caught and each given the death sentence, including, shockingly, the victim’s former brother-in-law: William Wayne Thompson, who was only fifteen years old. At the time, there was no national minimum age for the death penalty; states could execute whomever they saw fit. However, Thompson’s lawyers, citing the 8th Amendment of the Constitution, appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States on the grounds that giving the death sentence to a juvenile constituted “cruel and unusual

When 15-year-old Gerald Gault was on probation, he and a friend made ‘obscene comments’ in a telephone call made to a female neighbor. At the hearing, Gerald had no counsel. On top of that, the victim, the neighbor, was not present, and there was no evidence presented. He was found guilty and sent to a training school. Personally, I think that the trial was really in violation of due process rights. From what I have learned in the past, all suspects have access to an attorney, and they have a right to be able to face the victim in their trial. Having Gerald adjudicated delinquent and sending to a training school was unfair to him. He had an unfair trial, and therefore should have had the option to be retried with the victim and an attorney present.

Juveniles can be tried as adults for crimes ranging from kidnapping, murder, rape, arson, robbery, torture, assault, and more. Some of the cases that are sent to adult court are petty crimes, such as: underage drinking, possession of a controlled substance, and other minor crimes. The question is whether they should be tried as adults. These are all adult actions, on one hand, and may lead a person to wonder what brought a child to commit these crimes. One might further inspect that if a child or teenager is engaged in so-called “adult” activities, what kind of activities might a child choose to be involved in adulthood? What is the child’s background? Can you blame the child of a heroin addict for having access to drugs at a young age? Can you blame the child of a murderer for acting out? Yes, everyone has a choice even a child.

At age 16, we are legally allowed to emancipate ourselves from our parents. Boom! Suddenly we are officially adults. . . free. . . at 16. But aren’t you an adult at 18? Not according to emancipated 16 year olds. At age 16, we can consent to medical and dental treatment with the same authority as an adult. We can get a junior driver licence. We can decide which parent you wish to live with and whether you want to visit the other one if your parents separate. We can get married. We can drop out of high school. We can be expelled from school, whereas at a younger age our highest level of punishment would be exclusion. We can work full-time. We can get a passport without parental consent. We can get a firearms licence.

By law adolescents are not able to vote, purchase tobacco or alcohol, join the armed forces, or sign a legal contract. Children are not permitted the same rights and responsibilities as adults because the law recognizes their inability to make adult decisions. The law acknowledges that children are unable to handle the consequences that come along with the rights that adults have. By allowing them to be charged as adults is holding them to a double standard. Telling them that they are not old enough to enjoy the same luxuries as adults, but they can experience the same punishment as adults if they commit a crime. The law acknowledged the inability of children to make decisions but still allows them to suffer the same consequences as adults. Research demonstrates that transferring children from juvenile court to adult court does not decrease recidivism, and in fact actually increases crime. Instead of the child learning their mistake they are more likely to repeat it. Juvenile detention centers have programs that help reconstruct young minds and help them realize where they went wrong. Prison does not offer this same opportunity. (Estudillo, Mary Onelia)

According to Bartollas & Miller (2014), the Children’s Rights Movement and others juveniles should receive three basic rights: the right to treatment, the right not to be treated, and the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. The right to treatment refers to having the right for rehabilitation which may be needed for juvenile offenders. These offenders may be battling some sort of addiction which lead them to behave unlawfully and therefore should be given the necessary resources to help them while incarcerated or on probation. Another juvenile right is the right to refuse treatment. This right allows juvenile to refuse any services/resources available for them except for the following: services mandated by the court as a condition

Most teenagers today would likely ignore the law all together. In today’s time, there is somewhat a disregard for certain laws. Some examples of those laws include wearing red heels downtown on a Sunday, or it’s illegal to eat fried chicken any other way except for your hands or spitting on the sidewalk. Those laws are not enforced by anyone in today’s age. This law could do absolutely nothing when it comes to enforcing it. Teenagers that are up in age could also easily lie and say that they are above the age limit of eighteen.

Though once assumed to be simply miniature adults, children, any persons under the age of 16, no longer have full legal capacity. The limitations on legal capacity, however, serve to protect them from acting on less than adequate knowledge rather than to restrict them; therefore, children have sufficient legal capacity that any persons under 16 might ever need.