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Essay on Youthful Delinquency: Punishing Young Felons as Adults
Youthful offenders are not new to our society. These young delinquents have been there ever since there have been courts of justice but Juvenile courts have been a fairly recent development. Earlier, the age of seven was old enough for a young delinquent to be tried as an adult criminal, courts of law would not even hesitate to give the most severe of punishments to these young offenders but like all other reforms that came to the world, juvenile courts were also established and a child’s rights were protected.
But the recent occurrences of terrifying murders by these teen offenders have raised renewed debate about the way courts treat juvenile delinquits and the fruitfulness of our separate juvenile justice system.Should the courts treat children the same way they treat adults? Whether they understand the impact of the wrongdoings they do? Would rehabilitation effect them? Is it justice to treat them and try them in courts as adults? The questions have many answers.....
