I feel like they are just being so unfair to kids when it comes to committing something. No, kids aren’t just people to me. They are kids that’s are learning how to mature and learning how to grow up. In the video, the crimes they were putting on kids was so stupid. You took a child to serve time for just riding on a scooter his mom bought for him. They didn’t know it was stolen if anything the mom should have got in trouble because she was the one that bought it. He missed 5 years of his life for riding on a scooter. They need to just give these kids warning or talk to them before you take 3-5 years away from them. They are not adults yet, they don’t know what they are doing yet. They are punishing these kids for things their parents can give them a talk about when they get home. Also on the video they show a girl talking about lawyers, they don’t give kids lawyers if you don’t have one. When not having a lawyer, it makes it hard for you to win your case. But when adult have court and they don’t have a lawyer they assign one to them. If these kids are so much like adults when something bad happen why you don’t give the kids the same options? Sometimes you must give kids another chance in life being all there doing is growing up and learning. It’s just so unfair that kids that do minor kids can even get their life token away because they want to punish these kids like adults. Missing all the good years they can have memory with. Maybe the system will see what they’re doing to these kids and change how they do things. -BABYBLUE123
While I can agree that the crimes given, especially that scooter one, were beyond ridiculous, I have studied some child criminals and some of them do in fact think like adults. Granted the crimes I studied were far more dangerous than riding on a simple scooter. I feel that it really could go either way. Kids can either just be being kids and happen to look wrong in the eyes of the law or they can be as adult as taxes and pornography. I do feel bad for those kids that get caught up in a legal glitch and end up losing a portion of their life to iron bars and tasteless food, but for some kids I do feel they need to learn a lesson. Yes, they may not be adults yet, but often some kids grow up way too fast and some kids just never grow up at all. I know a thirty year old man who still acts like he's twelve and a ten year old that has the mental capability to purposely burn down his house. Its all iffy. SomethingProfound123
While I can agree that the crimes given, especially that scooter one, were beyond ridiculous, I have studied some child criminals and some of them do in fact think like adults. Granted the crimes I studied were far more dangerous than riding on a simple scooter. I feel that it really could go either way. Kids can either just be being kids and happen to look wrong in the eyes of the law or they can be as adult as taxes and pornography. I do feel bad for those kids that get caught up in a legal glitch and end up losing a portion of their life to iron bars and tasteless food, but for some kids I do feel they need to learn a lesson. Yes, they may not be adults yet, but often some kids grow up way too fast and some kids just never grow up at all. I know a thirty year old man who still acts like he's twelve and a ten year old that has the mental capability to purposely burn down his house. Its all iffy. SomethingProfound123
The system for conviction for children is insane! Some of the things that these children did not deem it justifiable to sentence them to prison or jail and take a portion of their life and make them spend that time in jail for it. It almost seems inhumane. On a level of understanding, I know that some children cases, should most certainly be trailed as an adult but that is only for cases that involve things like murder, rape, kidnapping, drugs and other super serious crimes that you would think only a capable adult would do. However, crimes like the ones that were mentioned in the video just don’t strike me as a valid reason to prosecute a child. Examples of this being the very first story the woman mention; a fifteen-year-old kid named Gerald Gault who had gone as far as the United States Supreme Court. He was charged with making a prank phone call to his elderly neighbor, something that most teenagers do in their spare time to get a good laugh, and ended up being arrested and detained over night without his parents being aware. All this quickly resulted in him being sent away to a training school for boys for six years. Over a prank call. What’s even more messed up is if he had been older, the punishment would have been less severe. Possibly a fifty-dollar fine and 30 to 60 days in the country jail. This case apparently brought awareness of a lot more children having be prosecuted in this manner and it really made the system start thinking about whether it was fair to treat children like adults when they do something wrong or if they needed to start treating them like children. I believe this is where things started to separate and the juvenile system was created. I think that it was good because children shouldn’t have been convicted like they were for doing things that children just do. They are kids. They aren’t fully matured. Only certain cases should really be treated as such and those must be major, but a prank phone call? Riding a scooter? Those crimes don’t necessarily strike me as the world’s most dangerous criminals. SomethingProfound123
I too agree that some cases presented in this video, and the punishments they received, were completely insane. I would wonder how a case in which someone bought a toy for their child , not knowing the toy was stolen, would have cleared a judge as a guilty "sentence" to that child. If there was any question of guilt I would be putting this on the parent or the person who sold the item. This shows that even in the juvenile courts we need a much more structured system that allots for the justice for all that we claim to give. The intentions behind less strenuous court systems for juveniles was likely put there for good reasons but as we can see that when you give too much lee way to possibly corrupt adults, that can then impact the juveniles and future generations in a less than positive way. Jeeper123
I totally agree with you; these cases are ridiculous. They are taking these kids life’s away from them people they are trying to treat them like adults. Children and adults are two separate maturity. If you at least feel like the child did something bad that you don’t agree with you could at least give them or in this case because there so little, a fine for their actions. They are little kids that don’t know what they are doing and that’s horrible that they treat their kids like that. -BABYBLUE
This video was extremely eye opening to me. In the small town in which I grew up, the issues that were brought before the juvenile justice system were issues that would have been worked out between adults, parents of children and authorities. Punishment would have been meted by the parents in most cases, and children and adults alike would have moved on from the situations with a better sense of right and wrong and ideally grow into adults that understood these concepts. I find it interesting that the juvenile justice system is the judge of right and wrong in young juveniles, but there is no system to teach right and wrong in these juveniles. The understanding of right versus wrong , what justice means, what it means to be a productive member of society, doesn’t seem to be the emphasis of the juvenile justice system yet they have the final say in these issues and in effect impacting and influencing the very formative years of some children’s lives. I feel that the juvenile justice system was brought about with the right intentions but , with little structure, it left a lot of room for error in the “justice for all.” Who of us has not made many mistakes when we were in our early to late teens? Some of these things we new were wrong and did them anyway and some of these things we did out of the willfulness of youth. Either way, as I grew up I KNEW my parents would set me right in one way or another and so I learned what to do and what not to do accordingly. I feel bad for the children whose parents could have easily reprimanded and or punished them with love and they would have moves on from these mistakes and become productive members of society, and instead they became victims of a corrupt and poorly organized system, or individuals of this system as the speaker made clear. I can only hope that these were the exception and not the rule. Jeeper123
In the video that I watched by Marsha Levick she talked about how juveniles and how they were getting treated in the criminal justice system. Levick starts off by saying that during the 1980s and early 1990s crime soared among adults and juveniles. During these years and early 21st century 200,000 children were prosecuted like adults . This is when crack cocaine and gun violence took off. Juveniles were getting adult time with the adult crime that they committed. She then goes on to say that states were competing to see who can be tougher on the juveniles. Sentencing juveniles to the death penalty, life without parole and any other mandatory extreme sentences. Between 1995 and 2005 several young men were put to death because of the crimes they committed as a kid. Between 2005 and 2012 the supreme court banned the juvenile death penalty, and banned life without parole for children who commit non-homicide crimes. My only question is why did it take almost 50 years for the Supreme Court to finally say something about kids being charged as adults. Yes, they should be punished but kids do dumb and crazy things. Their kids. You can't compare a juvenile's crimes to an adult crime. Adults should know what to do and what not to do. Kids should as well don't get me wrong , but it takes years to build enough maturity to realize what you will see and do in the real world. Life hits you fast as an adolescent, you just have to know how to conquer it and make the best of it without any major issues. Green123
The juvenile justice system is seemingly quite harsh on the young teens that find themselves in the midst of the system. They did not willingly place themselves there, and more often than not, it was probably a stupid childish mistake rather than some awful, thought out crime. When I was in the age range that I would be considered a juvenile, I know that I was foolish and irresponsible, but I honestly didn’t really weigh my options before I made a stupid decision with my buddies on a Saturday night. To be totally honest, in most cases, my parents would probably be tougher on me than the courts would. Being treated in excess and unfairly would make me resent the system, therefore I would most likely act out even more, which leads to further involvement in both the juvenile justice system and the adult system as time goes on. An example of such a situation was that of Gerald Gault, who was sent to a juvenile facility for six years over the issue of a prank call to a neighbor elderly man. To put the extreme nature of this punishment into perspective, an adult reported for the exact same crime would have basically received a slap on the wrist, and potentially a fine. Even a fine of $500, which is highly unlikely, would be far less extreme than the six years that Gerald had to spend at a Juvenile facility for a silly petty crime when he was 15 years old. Situations such as Gerald’s represent the extremity of the juvenile justice system, and in my opinion, that is an issue that should be resolved for the sake of bettering the lives and future actions of these juveniles. gh_blackhawks123
I feel like they are just being so unfair to kids when it comes to committing something. No, kids aren’t just people to me. They are kids that’s are learning how to mature and learning how to grow up. In the video, the crimes they were putting on kids was so stupid. You took a child to serve time for just riding on a scooter his mom bought for him. They didn’t know it was stolen if anything the mom should have got in trouble because she was the one that bought it. He missed 5 years of his life for riding on a scooter. They need to just give these kids warning or talk to them before you take 3-5 years away from them. They are not adults yet, they don’t know what they are doing yet. They are punishing these kids for things their parents can give them a talk about when they get home. Also on the video they show a girl talking about lawyers, they don’t give kids lawyers if you don’t have one. When not having a lawyer, it makes it hard for you to win your case. But when adult have court and they don’t have a lawyer they assign one to them. If these kids are so much like adults when something bad happen why you don’t give the kids the same options? Sometimes you must give kids another chance in life being all there doing is growing up and learning. It’s just so unfair that kids that do minor kids can even get their life token away because they want to punish these kids like adults. Missing all the good years they can have memory with. Maybe the system will see what they’re doing to these kids and change how they do things. -BABYBLUE123
ReplyDeleteWhile I can agree that the crimes given, especially that scooter one, were beyond ridiculous, I have studied some child criminals and some of them do in fact think like adults. Granted the crimes I studied were far more dangerous than riding on a simple scooter. I feel that it really could go either way. Kids can either just be being kids and happen to look wrong in the eyes of the law or they can be as adult as taxes and pornography. I do feel bad for those kids that get caught up in a legal glitch and end up losing a portion of their life to iron bars and tasteless food, but for some kids I do feel they need to learn a lesson. Yes, they may not be adults yet, but often some kids grow up way too fast and some kids just never grow up at all. I know a thirty year old man who still acts like he's twelve and a ten year old that has the mental capability to purposely burn down his house. Its all iffy. SomethingProfound123
DeleteWhile I can agree that the crimes given, especially that scooter one, were beyond ridiculous, I have studied some child criminals and some of them do in fact think like adults. Granted the crimes I studied were far more dangerous than riding on a simple scooter. I feel that it really could go either way. Kids can either just be being kids and happen to look wrong in the eyes of the law or they can be as adult as taxes and pornography. I do feel bad for those kids that get caught up in a legal glitch and end up losing a portion of their life to iron bars and tasteless food, but for some kids I do feel they need to learn a lesson. Yes, they may not be adults yet, but often some kids grow up way too fast and some kids just never grow up at all. I know a thirty year old man who still acts like he's twelve and a ten year old that has the mental capability to purposely burn down his house. Its all iffy. SomethingProfound123
ReplyDeleteThe system for conviction for children is insane! Some of the things that these children did not deem it justifiable to sentence them to prison or jail and take a portion of their life and make them spend that time in jail for it. It almost seems inhumane. On a level of understanding, I know that some children cases, should most certainly be trailed as an adult but that is only for cases that involve things like murder, rape, kidnapping, drugs and other super serious crimes that you would think only a capable adult would do. However, crimes like the ones that were mentioned in the video just don’t strike me as a valid reason to prosecute a child. Examples of this being the very first story the woman mention; a fifteen-year-old kid named Gerald Gault who had gone as far as the United States Supreme Court. He was charged with making a prank phone call to his elderly neighbor, something that most teenagers do in their spare time to get a good laugh, and ended up being arrested and detained over night without his parents being aware. All this quickly resulted in him being sent away to a training school for boys for six years. Over a prank call. What’s even more messed up is if he had been older, the punishment would have been less severe. Possibly a fifty-dollar fine and 30 to 60 days in the country jail. This case apparently brought awareness of a lot more children having be prosecuted in this manner and it really made the system start thinking about whether it was fair to treat children like adults when they do something wrong or if they needed to start treating them like children. I believe this is where things started to separate and the juvenile system was created. I think that it was good because children shouldn’t have been convicted like they were for doing things that children just do. They are kids. They aren’t fully matured. Only certain cases should really be treated as such and those must be major, but a prank phone call? Riding a scooter? Those crimes don’t necessarily strike me as the world’s most dangerous criminals. SomethingProfound123
ReplyDeleteI too agree that some cases presented in this video, and the punishments they received, were completely insane. I would wonder how a case in which someone bought a toy for their child , not knowing the toy was stolen, would have cleared a judge as a guilty "sentence" to that child. If there was any question of guilt I would be putting this on the parent or the person who sold the item. This shows that even in the juvenile courts we need a much more structured system that allots for the justice for all that we claim to give. The intentions behind less strenuous court systems for juveniles was likely put there for good reasons but as we can see that when you give too much lee way to possibly corrupt adults, that can then impact the juveniles and future generations in a less than positive way. Jeeper123
DeleteI totally agree with you; these cases are ridiculous. They are taking these kids life’s away from them people they are trying to treat them like adults. Children and adults are two separate maturity. If you at least feel like the child did something bad that you don’t agree with you could at least give them or in this case because there so little, a fine for their actions. They are little kids that don’t know what they are doing and that’s horrible that they treat their kids like that. -BABYBLUE
DeleteThis video was extremely eye opening to me. In the small town in which I grew up, the issues that were brought before the juvenile justice system were issues that would have been worked out between adults, parents of children and authorities. Punishment would have been meted by the parents in most cases, and children and adults alike would have moved on from the situations with a better sense of right and wrong and ideally grow into adults that understood these concepts. I find it interesting that the juvenile justice system is the judge of right and wrong in young juveniles, but there is no system to teach right and wrong in these juveniles. The understanding of right versus wrong , what justice means, what it means to be a productive member of society, doesn’t seem to be the emphasis of the juvenile justice system yet they have the final say in these issues and in effect impacting and influencing the very formative years of some children’s lives. I feel that the juvenile justice system was brought about with the right intentions but , with little structure, it left a lot of room for error in the “justice for all.” Who of us has not made many mistakes when we were in our early to late teens? Some of these things we new were wrong and did them anyway and some of these things we did out of the willfulness of youth. Either way, as I grew up I KNEW my parents would set me right in one way or another and so I learned what to do and what not to do accordingly. I feel bad for the children whose parents could have easily reprimanded and or punished them with love and they would have moves on from these mistakes and become productive members of society, and instead they became victims of a corrupt and poorly organized system, or individuals of this system as the speaker made clear. I can only hope that these were the exception and not the rule. Jeeper123
ReplyDeleteIn the video that I watched by Marsha Levick she talked about how juveniles and how they were getting treated in the criminal justice system. Levick starts off by saying that during the 1980s and early 1990s crime soared among adults and juveniles. During these years and early 21st century 200,000 children were prosecuted like adults . This is when crack cocaine and gun violence took off. Juveniles were getting adult time with the adult crime that they committed. She then goes on to say that states were competing to see who can be tougher on the juveniles. Sentencing juveniles to the death penalty, life without parole and any other mandatory extreme sentences. Between 1995 and 2005 several young men were put to death because of the crimes they committed as a kid. Between 2005 and 2012 the supreme court banned the juvenile death penalty, and banned life without parole for children who commit non-homicide crimes. My only question is why did it take almost 50 years for the Supreme Court to finally say something about kids being charged as adults. Yes, they should be punished but kids do dumb and crazy things. Their kids. You can't compare a juvenile's crimes to an adult crime. Adults should know what to do and what not to do. Kids should as well don't get me wrong , but it takes years to build enough maturity to realize what you will see and do in the real world. Life hits you fast as an adolescent, you just have to know how to conquer it and make the best of it without any major issues. Green123
ReplyDeleteThe juvenile justice system is seemingly quite harsh on the young teens that find themselves in the midst of the system. They did not willingly place themselves there, and more often than not, it was probably a stupid childish mistake rather than some awful, thought out crime. When I was in the age range that I would be considered a juvenile, I know that I was foolish and irresponsible, but I honestly didn’t really weigh my options before I made a stupid decision with my buddies on a Saturday night. To be totally honest, in most cases, my parents would probably be tougher on me than the courts would. Being treated in excess and unfairly would make me resent the system, therefore I would most likely act out even more, which leads to further involvement in both the juvenile justice system and the adult system as time goes on. An example of such a situation was that of Gerald Gault, who was sent to a juvenile facility for six years over the issue of a prank call to a neighbor elderly man. To put the extreme nature of this punishment into perspective, an adult reported for the exact same crime would have basically received a slap on the wrist, and potentially a fine. Even a fine of $500, which is highly unlikely, would be far less extreme than the six years that Gerald had to spend at a Juvenile facility for a silly petty crime when he was 15 years old. Situations such as Gerald’s represent the extremity of the juvenile justice system, and in my opinion, that is an issue that should be resolved for the sake of bettering the lives and future actions of these juveniles. gh_blackhawks123
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