Children and adults share a lot of the same rights, but when it comes to crime punishments they are treated very differently. A juvenile is typically a person under the age of eighteen; but what makes children under the age of eighteen an adult in the court of law? According to a website stating juvenile laws and rights:

"When a child commits a serious crime such as murder, theft, battery, drug possession, and weapon possession, they may no longer be considered a 'little kid.' When entering the court, all sixteen-year-olds charged with crime go to adult court and can be sentenced to adult prison. Children under the age of sixteen go to juvenile court. Youths, fourteen, and fifteen year olds who commit serious crimes (robbery, larceny, assault, kidnapping and arson) will be transferred to adult court, whe

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his son or daughters teacher, he would have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Maybe Nathaniel did not know that shooting someone was wrong or bringing a gun to school was wrong, but because Nathaniel Brazil was not 'old enough' to make the decision between right and wrong, he gets to walk away from this one day as if it never happened. Because children are not as old as adults they are not always tried the same way. Also a child's physical, psychological, and emotional health is taken in to consideration when trying to figure out the proper punishment. Brazil must not have had the same conscience as an adult may have, so he is set free. He was not mentally and emotionally developed enough to know right from wrong in this case.

"[...] Youths are incarcerated with adults and face longer sentences than they would in the juvenile

"Lionel Tate, is the 12-year-old boy who killed a little girl while imitating wrestling moves. He was convicted of first-degree murder. To convict Tate of first-degree murder, Florida law did not require the jury to find he actually intended to kill the girl, but only that he intended to commit the acts that led to her death. Under Florida law, Tate's conviction for

"Juveniles who receive harsher penalties when tried as adults are not 'scared straight.' In fact, after their release, they tend to re-offend sooner and more often than those treated in the juvenile system." (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/juvenile/stats/kidslikeadults.html) By trying juveniles as adults however, many people believe that

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