In today’s society, crime is at its all time high. People are so afraid when they have to leave their homes for something that is done routinely, such as going to work each day. Parents today are severely worried about the safety of their child. When parents are not surrounded by their loving children, they can always be overwhelmed with worry. When we think of the crimes that are being committed in this generation, you can only think that adults would be responsible of doing these horrible things. One of the major hurdles that is the hardest to jump over is the fact that children who are to be considered to be babies are committing such harsh crimes. At what age does a child know the difference between responsibility and a bad decision? “To the …show more content…
For example, when people do great things in their local home or even on the job, there is always some type of recognition. When you are able to understand the consequences of actions that is when a person’s value for responsibility should kick in. Often we read in the local news so many tragic stories, where teens are killing and robbing innocent people. One of the saddest tragedies that have been made so controversial is the story about how sixteen year old twins killed their mom back in 2010. Four year after the murder the twins finally confessed of the murder of their …show more content…
For many years, there has been many view point of what the right punishment for a juvenile offender should be. According to the article Juvenile Justice System, many people became worried because of the crimes being committed by children at such a young age, that they we’re convinced it was type for a change in the justice system (Shepherd 1999; Ferro 2003,