Teenagers should not be treated as adults when they are mentally undeveloped and are not capable of thinking twice about the consequences to their actions. Teenagers are at a sensitive stage in their life where thinking twice about a decision is not taken seriously, they become numb to what people advice and act solely on natural impulses. In “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” by Paul Thomson, a research group at the University of California has noticed a “pattern of brain growth in individual children and teenagers.
” He states that, “the biggest surprise in recent teenbrain research is the finding that a massive loss of the brain tissue occurs in the teen years. ” Paul Thompson acknowledges that adolescents have some sort of impairment in their brains since “brain cells and connections are only being lost in the areas controlling impulses, risk taking, and self control.
” Thompson’s theory of brain cell research is extremely useful because it sheds insight on the difficult problems of teenage impulses, such as a child committing homicide. When it comes to the topics of murder, most people will readily agree that the person being tried will be sent to jail. Where this agreement ends, however, is on the question of whether a teenager should be sent to jail for committing a crime.
Whereas some are convinced that if a person, doesn’t matter the age, commits a crime they should immediately pay the consequences, but others maintain that if a child commits a crime they should not be treated as an adult because of their young and undeveloped mentalities. “On Punishment and Teen Killers” by Jennifer Jenkins a teenager was found guilty for murdering a couple in Chicago of 1990. This young boy reacted upon his impulses simply
The Essay on Minors Committing Violent Crimes and Being Tried as Adults
The reason I selected this topic is because I feel that today’s generation of youth and children have been led mainly because of peer pressure which sometimes cause them to make bad choices. This usually causes minors to do some things that are wrong before they think about the consequences. They should be given consideration based on their age and all aspects of their background should be looked ...
