Annotated Bibliography On Why Juveniles Should Be Tried As Adults

Olivia Battaglini
Mrs Snider
English 2 6th period
3/15/17

Annotated Bibliography
Reaves, Jessica. ¨Should the Law Treat Kids and Adults Differently?¨ Time.com, Time Inc, 17 May 2001 content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,110232,00.html.
The central idea of this article is to show the two sides of the prompt ¨should Juveniles be tried as adults?¨ This article uses a lot of stories to help back herself up in her answer. The authority with the author/creator is trustworthy because, Jessica Reaves works for a trustworthy place ¨Time¨ The difficult part of trusting the accuracy of the article is, it was published in 2001 which could have a lot of changes in roughly 15 or 16 years. The article uses examples of juvenile violence to prove the point that kids are treated differently from adults. Readers can use this article to prove that kids are incapable of understanding the consequences of their action.

Steinberg, Laurence. ¨Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried As Adults?¨ USA Today Magazine 129 Issue 2668. Jan 2001 p.34. EBSCOhost.

The central idea of this article is showing the main key points about why Juvenile offenders should not be tried as adults.

This article shows the main side of should not be tried rather than showing both sides of the opposite they should be tried. The author Laurence Steinberg is an American Professor of psychology , and he published this article from USA Today Magazine which looks like a positive trustworthy source. Two worries the reader can have is reliability from the date 2001 and how it focuses on one argument rather than both. The evidence used in this article is that the juvenile justice system is designed to notice the special needs or immatureness of people. Also the fact that kids have different ways of thinking and different competencies they have from

adults.

Aliprandini, Michael. ¨Sentencing for Juvenile Offenders; An Overview.¨ Points of view; Sentencing for Juvenile Offenders. March 2016 EBSCOhost.
The main idea of this article demonstrates the two sides of the article. This article shows both of the sides of the Juvenile situation and makes sure they back up the two sides and also added a couple sentences with continued information of both sides. The author Michael Aliprandini could possibly be reliable because there's some good points in the article . This article is a reliable source because this was published in 2016 which is very recent and not to out of date to second guess if its a trustworthy article. Evidence used in this article is pointing out the main ideas about the main crime that was committed. Also pointing out the punishment the juvenile should get according to the crime he or she did.

Brown, Michael. ¨Juvenile Offenders; Should they be tried in adult courts?¨ USA today Magazine. Jan . 1998 Issue 2632. vol . 1 26
The central idea of this article is to determine the main key factors to identify if juveniles should be tried in adult courts. They give evidence from both sides to complete their statement . They use more positive identification for the ¨juveniles should not be tried in adult court.¨ This source is reliable because the article is from USA Today Magazine which is a good source of trust for the readers. The only downside of this article is that it was published in 1998 which could have major changes in almost 20 years. Some evidence that the author gave us in the article is between ages 7 and 14 they shouldn't not be proven guilty unless its for a legitimate right from wrong. Also that at age 14 they were considered as adults. Take into consideration that this was published in 1998 things changed to a higher number age.