Many teens throughout their lives are being mentally or physically abused at home or in public. We don’t let children vote, nor sign any contracts, but once they can start driving should they stand trial for murder or any crimes they caused. This means should children under the age of 18 be sentenced for crimes they committed, should they have the same intense sentencing as an adult, because children under the age of 18 are allowed to serve same jail time as a grown adult. They make the biggest mistakes either kill or rob because they’re angry or hurting on the inside so they take it out on someone else. From some states, there’s no separation in jail sentencing between adults and juveniles. I would consider that juveniles shouldn’t be tried as adults is that juveniles aren’t fully developed and the adults are the ones who have attained maturity and are legal of age.When a child commits a crime it’s essential to take the best description because that decision will impact them the rest of their lives. In a TED talk by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, she uses charts and explains by using color on how the brain of a teenager changes throughout the years. Another reason juveniles shouldn’t be tried as adults is because their brains aren’t fully developed until their experienced with language and mathematical skills, so when they commit the crime they really don’t know what happened or how it happened, for example a 17-year-old teen named Shawn got charged with attempted murder for stabbing his father one night, he was telling the detectives that he didn’t remember anything the next day he had told them he was sleepwalking, but that night…show more content… Children still can’t vote nor sign contracts till they’re 18, but yet they can still stand trial for crimes or accidents they’ve caused. Children aren’t seen to take as much responsibility like
