Kids Are Kids Until They Commit Crimes

They Are Just Children The we as adults routinely right off as just children are being rammed into the adult justice system, because petty adults do not want to believe that a child is capable of the the unthinkable. A child, someone who doesn’t vote vote because they are too immature and too young to understand, cannot be charged as an adult. Is this really how these children should be treated? Children are very distinctive and are not the same as adults. They should not be able to be held to those same high standards. Gail Garinger author of the article Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentences says,“Young people are biologically different from adults. Brain imaging studies reveal that the regions of the adolescent brain responsible controlling

Well, that's not the case. In Kids Are Kids - Until They Commit Crimes Marjie Lundstrom says, “It is a vexing question these days for the under- eighteen crowd, the groups that we routinely write off as ‘only kids’. It’s why they can’t smoke, or drink, or go to R rated movies without our OK. Its why they don’t vote. It’s why they have curfews. It’s why we fret over their Internet access and fuss about driving privileges” (Lundstrom para 3). Now, isn't this true? We do not give them the rights that adults have because of the fact that they are just kids! They are not developed fully and are immature so they are not given these rights. So if we aren't giving them these rights how can we then turn around and call them adults in the justice system! Marjie Lundstrom also says in the same article, “That is, until they foul up. Until they commit crimes. And the bigger the crime, the more eager we are to call them adults. It's a glaring inconsistency that's getting more glaring by the hour as children as young as twelve and thirteen” (Lundstrom para 5-6). Which isn't this amazing! Once again she is correct everyone is so excited to call them adults all of a sudden. It is the inconsistency at which we do this; that causes those blurred lines! If you are going to charge a child as an adult, give them all the rights of an adult! But, does the sense of

Stranger still, brain cells and connections are only being lost in areas controlling impulses, risk taking, and self control. These frontal lobes, which inhabit our violent passions, rash actions, and regulate our emotions, are vastly immature throughout the teenage years” (Thompson para 7). This, shows that the teenage brain actually goes through a recession in the areas that control impulses, risk taking, and self control. Proving that these children do not know what they are doing. He also says, “While research on brain - tissue loss can help us to understand teens better, it cannot be used to excuse their violent or homicidal behavior. But it can be used as evidence that teenager are not yet adults, and the legal system shouldn’t treat them as such” (Thompson para 11). This proves that they do not think or act the same as adults and cannot be treated like