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Harsher Penalties are in Fact the Answer to Juvenile Crime

Harsher penalties are in fact the answer to juvenile crime. Throughout the last couple of decades juvenile crime has skyrocketed. Citizens of the United States have become fed up with juveniles running around with the arrogant attitude that they can do whatever they want. I believe this is very important in regards to many different issues. Juvenile Crime is no longer something we can view as just a growing up process. This issue affects all of us who have been victimized or who know a victim of juvenile crime. Hopefully we can rehabilitate these juveniles through harsher penalties so they can become vital contributors to society. The current criminal justice view is to lock up violent youth in secure confinement, where they will learn to modify their violent behavior. (CJA, Database). This further strengthens my view that even though harsher punishments are important we must also institute rehabilitation processes in orde

We must as a society get the attitude out of these adolescents’ minds that they can do anything. These juveniles know that they can commit a crime and still get released on their 18th birthday. The System has a serious flaw in that penalties are to lenient, and the juveniles are exploiting this. I also agree that combined with the harsher penalties we can incorporate rehabilitation methods but that must take a backseat to the harsher penalties in order to deliver the proper message.

In the last few decades punishments such as spankings and other parental punishments have been frowned upon. Many people feel that if household punishments had continued like they were decades ago we would not be in this situation. This relates to capital punishment. 17 juveniles have been executed in the United States since the Death Penalty was reestablished.(Cothern, 2000). I am not saying that we have to execute more juveniles, but I am backing my original arg

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