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Should adolescents should be jailed as adults for adult crimes. As with any discussion there is more than one side to the argument. An article for the Christian Science Monitor makes some interesting points.
ReplyDeleteAt what age do we put adolescents in an adult prison or send them to a juvenile facility. Donna Ratliff was 14 when she was sent to the Indiana adult prison for starting a fire that killed her mother and 16 year old sister. For her own protection she was kept in the psychiatric wing. One would not think that the psychiatric wing would be a place for a 14 year old.
With in a day the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that a 16 year old boy was not entitled to be in a juvenile facility. He needed to be in an adult prison.
According to the article there seems to be a trend toward lowering the age of “adulthood” children’s rights advocates are concerned that teenagers are at high risk of being abused in prison. Also, there is the problem of not having a positive role model in prison.
The people in favor of putting teens in adult prisons think that the threat of going to prison should make the adolescent think twice before doing an adult crime. The violence of some of the adolescent crime has led some people to believe that we are under attack by cold blooded super predators.
Children’s rights advocates cite studies that show teens in adult prisons are more at risk of becoming career criminals.
National Center on Institutions and Alternatives does not think that locking adolescent offenders in any kind of facility is a good idea. They want the money that is spent on sending the teen to jail spent on making their life better before the child turns to crime.
Richey, Warren. (1997).JUVENILE delinquents LEGAL status, laws, etc. Christian Science Monitor; 6/2/97, Vol. 89 Issue 130, p4, 1 bw. Retrieved June 1, 2009
Nicely done and very interesting.
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