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A 7 page contention that trying and sentences juveniles who commit violent crimes as adults is imperative if we are to effectively curtail the growing crime rate in this country. Unfortunately, juveniles account for a tremendous percentage, if not the majority, of violent crimes committed in this country. The author contents that arguments that harsher sentencing is ineffective lack basis in hard long-term evidence. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Violent crime is one of the most concerning issues confronting society today. According to Parade Magazine "someone in the United States is murdered, raped, assaulted, or
robbed every sixteen seconds" (Moyers 4). This fact is scary enough when one thinks about these violent crimes as being directed at, and committed by, adults. It is
even scarier when one considers that many of the victims and perpetrators of violent crimes are children. The number of horrendous crimes being committed by juveniles in this country
is obviously on the rise and those who are charged with controlling those numbers confide all too often that they are without a:
"comprehensive strategy to reduce...violence" (Lovett PG) Unfortunately,
juveniles account for a tremendous percentage, if not the majority, of violent crimes committed in this country (Humes PG). The incidents of multiple school shootings which have broken out
across the nation coupled with the number of one-on-one crimes of juvenile-to-juvenile or juvenile-to-adult, in particular, have both shocked and revolted us. As a consequence there has been
a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities as adults (Briscoe PG). While many view such sentencing as ineffective and as an
injustice to the offender, in reality sentencing youthful offenders as adults is the only option which we have if we are to bring closure to the growing phenomena of violent
crimes committed by juveniles. Unfortunately we as Americans have come to have an intimate view of the gears of the sometimes terribly clogged
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