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Should Teenagers Be Tried As Adults

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A number of researchers have suggested over the years that teenage brains aren't yet fully developed, why they are so short tempered and moody doesn’t have an answer but one thing is known; one small thing can set them off just like that. Teenagers go through a lot of learning experiences and many deal with it in many different ways. So whenever it comes up that a minor committed a serious or minor crime it’s typical that they get less prosecuted than an adult would because of their age and that raises controversy. In my opinion teenagers should be tried as adults, although with their impressionable minds, skyrocketing hormones and oscillating emotions it doesn’t justify committing serious crimes such as murder. There are a lot of perspectives to look at, The root of the problem is sometimes the parents, should parents teach more freedom or more rules? The more rules there is the higher chance a teenager will want to rebel, more freedom could …show more content…

Some would say that if a teenager would to go to prison there mentatility and spiritual happiness would go down when the truth is the opposite, they need to be rehabilitated. With rules intact it would teach teenagers responsibility and discipline rather than a overwhelming sense of freedom. Teens are not dumb they do have a sense of right from wrong, if they weren’t to go to jail for their actions the victims family would be heavily discouraged. Even if there five years old they still need to be punished because if they are not it will most definitely become a habit later in life, they’d practically be letting a murderer loose on the streets ready to snap again at any moment. Children are also more sophisticated at a young age, they understand the implications of violence but the fact that child killers know how to load and shoot a gun gives away that they know exactly what their

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