Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth President of the United States said, "No man is above the law and no man is below it, nor do we ask any man's permission when requiring him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not as a favor." In the United States today juvenile crime is increasing at a rapid rate. At one point in time everyone has witnessed or been victims of juvenile's ignorant actions. The lingering question for years has been, "should juveniles be tried as adults?" Various facts and statistics have been evaluated and research proves juveniles should be tried as adults. Juvenile punishment is simply to lineate. Juveniles don't have a reason to obey the law and there is way to man repeat offenders.
There are many who believe juveniles should not be tried as adults. They believe adolescence are not capable of making adult decisions, therefore they shouldn't be tried as adults. Some also agree that the juveniles committing these crimes are not at fault. According to juvenile crime.com, eighty percent of juvenile offenders experienced bad home lives. Are these legitimate arguments? Yes, but if juveniles were tried as adults their penalties would be much tougher. Teenagers would know ahead of time that things aren't going to be so lax. No matter what level these kids think at or what kind of lives they have lived, if they know their hand will get slapped when it is in the cookie jar they won't reach for the cookies.
According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, a sixteen year old boy broke into a house and stole a TV, DVD player and stereo. After police investigated the scene and were sure who the offender was, the court sentenced him to forty-eight hours of community service. Forty-eight hours is merely a slap on the wrist to a s ...