In some societies the number of crime committed by teenagers is growing. Some people think that regardless of age teenagers who commit major crime should receive adult punishment. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The alarming increase of adolescent
crime
is being vigorously discussed in many countries. While governments try to address this
issue, a segment of society
is convinced that teenagers
should have the same punishment as adults. I completely agree with this
point. Because young people should know that law is serious and punishment should teach it to them. The following paragraphs will highlight my opinion along with relevant examples.
To commence, in many countries teenagers
have less severe punishments
compared to adults. This
gives freedom to young people to do what they want, without taking any responsibility for their actions. For example
in Europe teenagers
are not punished even for serious criminal offences. Thus
, if countries introduce punishments
for youngsters, they will think twice before breaking the law. Secondly
, some teenagers
with extremely violent behaviour known for re-offences should be excluded from the community and provided special psychological treatment. This
will help to avoid grievous consequences in the future.
Adding further
, harsher punishments
will deter other adolescents from offences. In other words
, potential juvenile criminals will be afraid to commit a crime
as they will be aware and afraid of severe punishments
. In the long run, this
can benefit the community and adolescents. Lastly
, regardless of age crime
is a crime
, if teens have lenient laws towards them, they will not know about the harm they are inflicting to society
. For instance
, if a teen stabbed someone and got away easily with it, he or she will not know how serious their action was.
To conclude, teenagers
are aware of their actions and know the rules of society
. Therefore
, I believe that any person harmful to society
should be punished equally.Submitted by shoira.shakirovna on
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