Should Teenagers Be Tried As Adults?

Suppose you’re at the mall with your friends and you see a boy from school running out of an expensive store, and the next day you see him on the tv for burglary and second-degree murder. This young man had a bright future ahead of him like many other teenagers or children, before they unintentionally murder someone and have been convicted for something they probably didn’t even thoroughly think about, and later imprisoned. It is simply the impulsive, erratic behavior teenagers have in their teenage years caused by the significant amount of tissue loss that led the teenager to make homicidal decisions. In the United States, teenagers can be tried as adults, go to prison for possibly the rest of their life and the youngest a child can be arrested

An adult is someone who is as young as 21 and does not necessarily need to be taken care of by their parents unless they might have a disability they are not able to control. We shouldn’t identify teenagers as adults just because they probably made a decision without a second thought to killing someone, or maybe it was an accident. Being identified as an adult when you’re only a teenager could be a disadvantage although a majority of the teenagers want to be treated like an adult. It is giving the court the chance to put you in prison instead of juvie because of the crime. Teenagers unlike adults haven’t had a fully developed brain and have suffered massive loss of tissue and so they make very impetuous decisions. Something similar happened to Nathan Brazill when he shot his favorite English teacher. He was scolded for throwing water balloons out the window and later convicted for first-degree murder. We have mistaken a teenager for what might be a burglar, and confuse our conscience with what we see in front of our faces, for example, the cover of a book. And then fear that they might cause more harm if we let them off the hook, believing that the teenager will learn their lesson if they stay inside a prison cell for a couple of years. It seems like the more trouble teenagers cause the more determined we are to send them away. A quote from the article Kids are Kids-Until They

Teenagers, unlike all the other age groups, are easily influenced by anything that comes their way because, during the teenage years, they find their inner-selves and want to discover new pathways to determine their future. Friends although not in prison can also be a bad influence depending on who they hang out with. Perhaps, a certain teenager lived an unstable life with no father, things just started falling down from there, friends did illegal drugs, you find that it is okay since they are doing it since nobody is there to stop you. Due to curiosity even though it may seem bad you do it anyways because that is the only thing you are exposed to, which is the same concept as playing the same video game as your other friends play. The same thing happens inside a prison cell and once you let those aged teenagers out, they’ll cause more harm than before without knowing. I believe we sometimes confuse the word helping in all sorts of different cases. In this case, we confuse it by charging teenagers as adults and putting them in prison cells to “help” them learn their lesson, people might be afraid they will cause more harm if they are let off the hook, or giving closure to the family members of the person that has passed.