Can Age be a good excuse in a case of juvenile delinquency?

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“Rape: the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.” Rape is not about having unwanted sex with other, but it It is all about one power overruling another. After rape, victims think they lost everything of them and live their life with full of guilt and depression. At this moment, does age really matter? Younger age doesn’t alleviate anguish of…victim nor change the situation. Criminal is a criminal and this fact never changes. Juvenile delinquent who is accused of rape should be tried and sentenced as an adult because this criminal left indelible wound on the victim and sentencing high penalty will give criminal a time to think of his action and to regret what he has done. Also, juvenile delinquent needs to learn more about consequences and great responsibility that follows his or her action.
Who is teenager? Teenager is an immature person who is going through a stage of becoming an adult and also is going to be the next generation that will continue this generation’s unfinished jobs. Because teenager is momentous being, adults (parents), especially on education, invest their great amount of money, time, and passion on them. Teaching a teenager a responsibility and consequence followed by his or her action is needed and important. Here’s the thing. Wouldn’t giving a right penalty for a juvenile delinquent count as an education? Purpose of sentencing criminals is to teach them the right thing and give them a time to think about their action. While criminals are imprisoned, they will have a chance to regret their action and reborn as a new person. But if people keep lessening juveniles’ sentence and excusing them from their action, juvenile delinquents won’t learn ab...

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...esponsibilities followed by their action just because they are young, juveniles aren’t going to realize the seriousness of their mistake, and furthermore, this will continue vicious cycle of making same mistake over and over again. Because juveniles are young, it’s needed to control rigidly and to ask for their responsibilities. Juveniles realizing heaviness and seriousness of consequences and responsibilities will break out a vicious cycle that had been repeated over and over.

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