100 word response 1 reference due 2/2/2023
Abigail
In the current juvenile justice system, punitive measures are more prevalent. Research has shown that in almost every state, youths who are 13 or 14 years of age (or less) can be tried and punished as adults for a broad range of offenses, including nonviolent crimes (Piquero & Steinberg, n.d.). In recent years, juveniles have been subjected to increasingly severe punishments. The offensive everyday and environmental stimuli that children are exposed to may be contributing to the rise in juvenile crimes. “As early as 1980, criminal justice was focused on combatting a certain kind of juvenile criminal who had no remorse, and committed heinous acts of violent crime with no hope of rehabilitation; these young adult criminals were known as
super predators, a type of criminal that was “so remorseless, he could rape, kill, maim without giving it a second thought” (Silver, 2020). Unlike children in previous generations, these days’ children cannot play outside without fear of being shot or killed, and guns have become the new toy everyone wants. In spite of this, children are unaware of the severity of their actions. All they seem to understand is that it’s cool and what everyone else is doing, so they want to get involved. In prison, however, it is just them and not all of their friends or the people they looked up to when they committed their crime. The punitive criminal causation model is supported by a “tough on crime” agenda, which has contributed to an increase in juvenile crime across the U.S. even though children do commit violent crimes, the harsh, aggressive approach that the U.S. uses to prosecute juveniles as adults is making the incarceration problem worse (Silver, 2020). Children would be much better served by learning from their mistakes rather than being convicted for harsh sentences. We even know this to be true based on the documentary “When Kids Get Life.”
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