Essay - Some people think that teenagers who commit crimes should be treated the same way as adult criminals. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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I disagree in totality to the idea of equal punishment for crimes by adult and teenagers. I shall elaborate my point of view in this essay.
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I disagree in totality to the idea of equal punishment for crimes by adult and teenagers. I shall elaborate my point of view in this essay.
Younger person is different than an adult and does not possess a fully developed brain. Experts also opine that three-quarters of adolescents lack the decision-making abilities like adults, thus only one-quarter of juveniles function in an adult manner.” Juvenile behaviour is greatly influenced by factors like adolescence, immaturity, impulsivity and inability to estimate risks and foresee the consequences. Young generation is enormously focussed on immediate monetary gains, great success and sex stimulation with no thought of risks and consequences at all.
Hence considering only mandatory sentence and its imposition on a youth is totally wrong. The youths have less responsibility for their actions than adults and they have greater prospects for improvement and reform. Harsh punishment for a prolonged time may adversely affect the tender minds of the youth thereby spoiling their mental and physical health and thereby rendering them incapable of progress and reform.
Even in the home when two or more youth commit some mischief, the oldest is punished hard and the punishment to younger ones is in the lenient form. Then how can we punish all youths at a level of adults regardless of their age and maturity.
In conclusion, youths are the nation builders. They have less responsibility for their actions than adults and greater prospects for improvements and reforms. Hence punishing the youths equally as adult criminals is totally wrong and against the interest of the nation.
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