Juvenile Deliquency
Take a position on weather a 12-year old should be treated in the same way as an adult for committing a crime.If a 12 year old is put behind bars, how can he become a functional member of society upon his release? How will he create a positive lifestyle for himself? The real question is: How can he turn in any direction other than that of crime? He simple will not be able to. If a child is sent to a prison to stay in a cell for hours at a time, the only life he will know is the life he came from, not the life that could be his. The goal of juvenile detention should be to rehabilitate and develop the individual. Appropriate educational skills need to be taught. Children need to be put in touch with their feeling through counseling. Juvenile offenders need to be exposed to role models from within their community and without. A sense of hope should be instilled so that the young offender is not resigned to the fate of a "this is all I will ever be anyways." More important than efforts to rehabilitate the offender would be programs to prevent the juvenile from committing crimes to begin with. Keyshawn Johnson, a wide receiver for the NFL's New York Jets, recently said, "People hate to say it, but what you are around is what you'
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Approximate Word count = 1298
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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