Miscellaneous Ramblings
Haven't posted for a while due to other commitments, and a lack of anything to say.
Why do we have a youth criminal justice system? That is, why do we treat offenders differently before a certain age?
Presumably it is because we know, by intuition, from experience and, increaingly, through scientific study, that young peoples' understanding of right and wrong - their judgement - takes time to develop.
Yet, whenever a kid proves this thory by perpetrating a serious crime, there is a hue and cry to have him (sometimes her) tried and sentenced as an adult. It isn't so much the jail time that worries me. It is the idea of putting a teenager into an adult penitentiary.
Haven't posted for a while due to other commitments, and a lack of anything to say.
Why do we have a youth criminal justice system? That is, why do we treat offenders differently before a certain age?
Presumably it is because we know, by intuition, from experience and, increaingly, through scientific study, that young peoples' understanding of right and wrong - their judgement - takes time to develop.
Yet, whenever a kid proves this thory by perpetrating a serious crime, there is a hue and cry to have him (sometimes her) tried and sentenced as an adult. It isn't so much the jail time that worries me. It is the idea of putting a teenager into an adult penitentiary.
posted by Ooten Aboot | Sunday, November 19, 2006
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