Teenagers who commit serious crimes, such as burglary or murder, should be treated in the same way as adults who commit crimes. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this and give your own opinion.

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In today's world, more and more people consider that it would be beneficial to treat
tenagers
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teenagers
who commit serious crimes in the same way as adults. Despite
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others disagree with
this
opinion.
Firstly
,
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advantages
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of
this
tendency and,
secondly
, it will analyse its disadvantages.
To begin
with, on the one hand, the advocates of
this
idea believe that
this
approach will show youngsters that they have the same level of responsibility for their actions as more mature people do.
This
is because of the fact that not only do all humans have the same rights but
also
if teens are not punished for their
commitements
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commitments
commitment
they might feel freedom and will continue to do
violance
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violence
.
Therefore
, the law for all criminals should be identical and
younger
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part of a population should understand
responsibility
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that they have in order not to feel forgiven for
such
serious crimes as murder.
For instance
, recent research has shown that after being freed more than 10% of teens continue criminal life.
However
,
on the other hand
,
this
system is likely to ruin
child
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psyche and lead to a variety of health problems. The main reason for
this
is that not only do teenagers have
weaker
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nervous system that might suffer from
such
hard
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situation as imprisonment but,
moreover
, they might have some mental disorders in the future.
As a result
, if young humans will be treated in the same way as mature people they might not be able to go through all these difficulties and it, in turn, will ruin their whole life.
For example
, one study has illustrated that about 15% of teens get various psychological disorders when cannot cope with the pressure they receive. Eventually, to conclude, I disagree with
this
approach and, in my opinion, teen's nervous system is completely different from adult's and it is unfair to judge these 2 categories of criminals
similarly
since it will have
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influence on them.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • deterrent effect
  • equality before the law
  • psychological development
  • rehabilitation prospects
  • incarcerating
  • hardened criminals
  • tailoring punitive measures
  • developmental aspects
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