What Are The Factors That Juries Should Take Into Account When They Sentence Juveniles

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5. The factors that I think juries should take into account when they sentence juveniles, is there; age, crime, sciological state, home life, and even parents. Juries should take the age of of juvinelies into consideration, if they are olden to know right from wrong and the crime was serious I beleieve they should be judged like adulyts. Also though juries need to take the sciological state of the juvineall into account. As well as if they come from a bad home with horrible parents. 4. Technology is helping us understand the teenage brain becuase it is allowing us to explore what makes teenage act the way they do. Also with technology we are able to see how teenagers act in different situations. Also video games even help show us how teenagers act, think, and recat to situations. …show more content…

Teenagers often act on impulses. Teenagers are still young and in between the adult and tenn stage. This often leaves teenagers emotions and acts to but unpridicatble and to fir them to act on impulse. 2. This is a hard question, it is a yes and no for serious crimes yes I do believe for like murder, or felonies, or other serious crimes I do believe that juveniles “tried as adults”. 1. I do think at times that the jurors should take the age of a criminal into consideration. If the criminal is a juvenile they should and need to take consideration there age and the crime they committed before deciding there

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