What good can come from being tried as an adult?

Question

What good can come from being tried as an adult?

Answer 1

let me ask you this. ......

a 35 year old drug addict kills your son for his lunch money,

a 16 year old drug addict kills your son for his lunch money.

what should the difference in the sentencing of their crime be?

Does either sentence bring your son back?  Does Life in prison or the death penalty really make any difference to you?  

When you kill, you are saying to society, I am not fit to live among you , by your laws.   I am not referring to cases where kids have killed others "accidently," or meant no harm.....but someone died anyway.   I am talking about young PUNKS, who went looking for trouble, and found it.

If they were old enough to do the crime, then they are old enough to do the time.  Let's see how tough they are on death row,  Easy to be the "big man with a knife"  on the block.   Now let's see that same "toughness"  in prison.

Recently there was a case of GRADE schoolers planning bodily HARM to their teacher.  IF they had succeeded.....she would still be just as dead.   Shall we look the other way because of age?  This was a PLANNED, organized, attempt to seriously HURT her. in which she may have been KILLED.

By half a dozen students!   What GOOD comes of PUNISHING them??? I'd say ---ALOT!!!!!

The "good" comes from  NOT what it will do to THEIR lives.....but by PROTECTING other innocent lives they may have deemed to slaughter later.  That's the GOOD of getting slime off the streets.

Answer 2

Assuming the defendant is a minor, Society can gain great benefit from having hardened criminals from inflicting pain and suffering on other minors and society in general.

A 12 year old with a knife can kill you as easily as a 34 year old with a gun.

Answer 3

A minor being tried as an adult is being made accountable for their actions; which is something that today's society does not do enough of these days.  If a minor is old enough to do a crime they should be old enough to accept whatever consequence comes from it.

Answer 4

harsher punishment that sticks instead of being wiped away from their records. just cuz u r 16 doesnt mean u should get to kill someone and not recieve the harshest punishment possible. u should get tried as an adult and get a just senctence

Answer 5

A nice hard lesson.

Answer 6

None whatsoever, if you're the defendant.  It just means they can sentence you to harsher punishments, but this is only done in cases of murder in the second degree or more severe charges.

From the perspective of the law, it will put away dangerous criminals and prevent them from getting off easy because of a minor technicality, such as being 17 at the time the crime was perpetrated.  Think, if they go to juvenile prison, they can be released in considerably less time, and the record is expunged when they turn 18, meanwhile, if tried as adults, they have no such advantage.

Answer 7

Being tried as an adult means that a juvenile will serve a harsher penalty than being tried as a juvenile, in which the juvenile will serve in juvenile detention until age 18 and then transferred to prison or jail.