Juvenile Crime And Punishment: Justice Or Injustice

Part I of Essay
In recent years the crime rate for juveniles has escalated and violent criminal acts are now being committed by younger children. In hopes of deterring juvenile crime, many states are now wavering juveniles to adult courts. Once the youth is trialed, he or she is subjected ....

Part II of Essay
.... are surfacing questioning whether it is morally right to subject our young to adult prisons. History shows thousands of years of serious tensions between children and parents. In the U.S., parents and children both complain that they receive no respect from each other. Yet mostly because of the spread of guns and drugs, younger and younger children are killing and being killed. Just recently there were several shootings involving children less than twelve years of age. According to children rights advocates, even in the most violent ye ....