Young people committing crimes should be treated the same as adults by authorities. To what extent do you agree or disagree.

It is considered by some individuals that young

offenders

should get the same treatment as older criminals from the government. In my opinion, I disagree with

this

because most adolescents indulge in criminal activities due to immaturity and if given a

second

chance, they can make positive contributions to

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society

with the larger number of

years

they have ahead. One reason why the government should be lenient with juvenile

offenders

is due to the immaturity of young people.

In other words

, many young people have raging emotions because of puberty and other biological changes in their

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at

this

stage of

their

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. The reaction to these rapid changes could lead them to commit crimes because they have not mastered their emotions.

For instance

, the sexual changes at puberty can make a young boy touch somebody of the opposite sex inappropriately thereby becoming

a sexual

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offenders

. Another reason why minors should get lesser judgement when they commit offences is that they can still be productive in their later

years

. By

this

I mean when people commit crimes at a young age, giving them a similar sentence to an adult will rob

the

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society

of other positive things they could contribute to

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society

in their later

years

.

For example

, a person who gets imprisoned at around

age

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eighteen

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for a term of fifty

years

will not contribute any tax or other valuable things to

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society

. In conclusion, I think young

offenders

should not be subjected to the same punishment as older criminals because of their undeveloped minds and the loss of valuable contributions to the community.