Controversies

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Juveniles
The legal system dealing with juveniles is controversial because they have several different parts to them. There’s the sentencing, the death penalty, being held accountable for their actions, and other things. It’s controversial because it deals with children and deciding the rest of their lives at times.
Lately we’ve seen more and more juveniles committing crimes. They’re the ones killing people nowadays and a lot of them are getting off. They aren’t being held accountable for their actions because they’re to young. The law says that if you’re under 10 years old and you commit a crime, you can’t be held accountable for your actions. I believe that’s true in some cases but in other cases, it’s wrong. If a little kid, who’s under 10 years old, commits some small crime then I can understand where he’s not held accountable. If someone kills someone, I don’t care how old he or she is, they should be held accountable. Other times, the lawyers pleads a bad home life to help get the juvenile off. The lawyer makes the juvenile the victim, instead of the culprit. I think that juveniles should be held accountable for their actions. I don’t like how a juvenile, who’s 15, will get a prison sentence for 20 years but will barely serve any of it. They’ll be sent to a juvenile prison and serve time there until they’re 18 or 21 and then their case will be reviewed. A lot of the time, they’ll be released because they’re young and they had good behavior in prison. If they’d been an adult, they’d have to spend time in a real prison and then have to see a parole board. I think that the courts are to easy on some of the juveniles. I think juveniles who kill or rape someone, or commit several bad crimes, should be treated like an adult.
Someone opposed to my opinion would probably have a lot to say. They’d argue that they’re only children and they don’t understand the dep...