Some people believe that young people who commit serious crimes should be punished in the same way as adults. To what extend do you agree or disagree.

It is a common belief that young people, accused of substantial crimes have to be pressed with the same charges and prosecuted with no difference from the

adults

. In

this

essay,I will present why I strongly disagree with

this

statement and provide the reasons for my opinion.

Firstly

, it is a well-known fact that juvenile crimes are most likely to be committed by young people, who come from rough neighbourhoods or are raised amongst delinquent people in hostile families.

This

proves that poor choices and actions of

such

youngsters are not of their own, but have been strongly promoted by the environment and inadequate behaviour of the

adults

, who were the role models for the child.

Furthermore

, the child and teenage psychology clearly state that to a certain age a person can not distinguish the good and bad,

therefore

, if growing up one was surrounded by

adults

, living criminal lives, they accept

such

behaviour as normal.

On the other hand

, it is proven that extensive jail time does not correct behaviour of the convict.

For example

, if a young person, with shifted morals, is sentenced to a jail time, he/she gets angry with the

adults

and chooses a criminal path just to be revenged of lost time life in freedom. It has been proven that only psychological counselling and positive role models can help a lost child to find and choose a right path in future and become a part of normal society, adding value to the population of the country he/she lives in. In conclusion, I completely disagree that the young criminals should be judged the same way as the

adults

, because they haven't been taught about good and bad, and they didn't have positive role models growing up. Another reason why I am against the idea of equal prosecution is that we need to provide psychological help and rehabilitation, opposed to pushing them towards the vicious cycle of committing crimes, serving the sentence and committing the assault again.