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Should anyone under 21 be considered a juvenile? ((In general anyone under…

- - - - Yes children should be prosecuted as adults depending on the crime. For instance, an eleven year old boy shot his father's pregnant fiance' in the back of the head while she was sleeping. This is not just a crime and case that should be taken over by the juvenile system. This is a case that needs to be taken over and put in the adult system. Now another case being a boy named Eric Smith was 13 years old when he murdered a 4 year old, strangled him, sodomized him with a tree limb, and then he went along and dropped two large rocks on his head!! If you don't think he needs to be prosecuted as an adult well....YOU'RE CRAZY!!! I'm 15 myself and I'm highly for prosecuting children as adults. Not all children should be but for kids who commit gruesome crimes like the ones I shared, then yes they should be prosecuted as adults.(CI)
- - - - America’s youth and adult prison population peaked in the late 1990, following a spiking crime rate and harsher sentencing laws. Youth incarceration, in particular, exploded: by 1997, more than 107,000 kids were behind bars, only about a quarter for violent offenses. Amid high crime rates and ultimately unfounded fears of a new generation of young “super predators,”(CI)
        
        By 2013, though, that number had dropped by roughly half, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Today there are about 54,000 incarcerated youth.(CI)
        
        Although today’s juvenile justice system has undergone significant reforms, there are still stark disparities. Nearly 70 percent of incarcerated youth are minorities. And black youth are nearly five times as likely to be incarcerated than their white peers.(CI)
        
        a heinous crime remains the same, no matter who commits it. Our justice system depends upon holding perpetrators responsible for their actions.(CI)
        
        Youth placed in the adult system had 34 percent more re-arrests, and often, at faster rates and more dangerous levels. Mental health needs go unmet in adult settings across the country and little training is offered to facility staff on working with the youngest offenders. Meanwhile, the juvenile justice system, more broadly, puts an emphasis on the rehabilitation, treatment, education and public safety of youth in its care. It is rare that you will find that kind of express mission — let alone a program focused on treatment and education — in state departments of corrections.(CI)