| I think that there is nothing wrong with trying children as adults. How do we decide what "adulthood" is? I wouldn't say age, I would say a level of maturity.
And so as long as it is carefully decided that the juvenile knows what crime they commited and why it was wrong there is nothing wrong with trying them as an adult, particularly if they show no remorse.
The only thing I would say is that they should be segregated from the other criminals in prison. I would not send a sixteen or seventeen year old into prison life with much more dangerous criminals. |