Juvenile Justice A debate rages over whether juveniles who commit a crime should be tried as juveniles, or should be transferred to the system for adults to be judged there. tried as an adult. There is a wide variety of opinions on this issue, ranging from the idea that their brains are not developed enough to fully understand what they are doing, to the idea that young people's intentions, where and how their brains has been developed, wherever crime has caused a problem. considerable harm to a person's life or may have caused its loss in the case of murder, and that a juvenile who commits an adult offense should be tried as an adult. Many different people have many different criteria by which they make this judgment. For some, it is the return rate of juveniles to prison, the rehabilitation success of prison programs, or perhaps the seriousness of the commuted crime. The best solution is for a minor who commits a crime to be tried as an adult. . A crime as serious as a felony has most likely caused a lot of harm and trauma in someone's life, and this fact does not change regardless of the age of the criminal, which in my opinion means that 'it must be judged in the same way in an adult. court. One of these criteria, and arguably one of the most important in deciding whether a minor should be tried as a criminal, is the seriousness of the crime. This criterion is that if the seriousness of the crime is sufficient, for example if the victim was murdered in a cruel or unusual manner, there were a large number of victims, including children, or if other illegal acts were committed. committed against the victims. parallel to the crime, the minor must be judged as an adult. An important point is made by Peter A. Weir, A District At...... middle of paper ...... uh turbulent. Some of these individuals belong to a gang or grew up in a troubled environment. These juveniles, under peer pressure or for gang-related reasons, committed this crime due to their environment, which might have acted differently if they had lived in different circumstances. This is a good point, because minors have little choice about the environment in which they grow up. Although this is an unfortunate circumstance, it does not change the crime. Steps must be taken to help these individuals in their environment, but that is another debate. Ultimately, when judging whether to sentence a juvenile to the adult system, let's not ask ourselves whether they should be lenient because of their age, but ask ourselves what effects the actions of these young criminals had on the victims. To do less would be an injustice.