Juvenile Justice: How Just Is It?

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This paper discusses that one possible improvement to the juvenile system is trying violent juvenile offenders as adults. The author points out that there are proponents for the idea that a juvenile defendant is entitled to be tried in front of a jury of his or her peers. The paper concludes that changes to the juvenile justice system should be guided by solid research, rather than by subjective notions that bad children will necessarily become bad adults.

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"Forty-year-old printer Terry King was asleep in his Florida home when he was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and his home set ablaze in an apparent attempt to destroy the evidence. His longtime friend Ricky Chavez and his two young sons Alex, 12 and Derek, 13 stood trial separately for his murder. Chavez, a convicted child molester who admittedly molested both Alex and Derek for years and was implicated in the murder of Terry King, was found not guilty; but both Alex and Derek (who were tried as adults) were found guilty and sentenced to serve prison terms."

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