Teenage offenders should be treated in the same way as adult criminals. Do you agree?

There is a growing concern over the way

teenagers

should be executed when they

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commit

a crime. It is said that they should not

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excepted and should receive the same penalties

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adults. It is noteworthy to keep in mind that either a teenager or an adult

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committee

a crime, the consequences and the

harms

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it

cause

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is the same.

However

, I believe that

teenagers

should be judged differently. The following essay overlooks two rationales for my idea.

First

, the

humans

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brain continues developing as

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age increase and the most significant percentage of

this

development occurs by

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eighteen-year-old

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eighteen year-old

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.

Consequently

, a great number of

teenagers

' actions are being controlled by their immature

brains

which

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out of their control.

For example

, a teenager might do shoplifting just because their

brains

find it exciting while a mature brain usually

do

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not look at

this

action as an enjoyable thing because it has the ability

of understanding

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the difficulties it might cause for the

saleperson

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salesperson

. The

intention

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behind their criminal acts are different;

hence

, the penalties should be different.

Second

, our

brains

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loose

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their ability

of being

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to be

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trained as we

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older. As we

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, not only will it be harder for us to learn but

also

to change. Since

teenagers

are more trainable, they deserve to be treated in a way to be encouraged to change their behaviours.

For instance

, if a youngster is obliged to attend

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some behavioural revising programs

instead

of being incarcerated, he or she might not repeat the action again while it is less probable to happen for an adult. To sum up, it is better not to execute criminals the same

of

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adults when they are younger than eighteen. I believe because

this

age-group's

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brains

are not mature enough and they are still able to change their lives, they deserve to be

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exceptionals

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.