Unjust Justice for Juveniles

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This paper discusses how juvenile crime, because of the number of crimes and the nature of the crimes committed by young people, is a critical problem that must be resolved. It looks at how, in analyzing the ways to approach this problem, two crucial approaches have been argued. It examines how the first, as argued by Fuentes, is to treat children as children, even if they are juvenile offenders and to focus on rehabilitating them, and how the second approach, argued by Judge Linda Collier, is that the juvenile justice system has to be revised, and juvenile offenders have to be given the same penalties as adults.

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"Collier adopts a tough position against juvenile crime, while studies demonstrate that tough adult penalties for juvenile criminals will not resolve the problem of juvenile crime. Collier insists that juvenile offenders should not be treated as children but should fully pay for their crime as would any adult. This could mean sentencing eight year olds to the same prison time that a court of law would sentence an adult to. The justice system is supposed to rehabilitate and train people to become decent members of society, but Collier's solution is no guarantee that the juvenile offender will rehabilitate. In fact, she does not provide any evidence to illustrate that the states which adopted tough laws for juvenile offenders have a lower juvenile violent crime rate."

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