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.