Young people who commit serious crimes, such as a robbery or a violent attack should be punished in the same way as adults. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

The argument for

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punishment

policy is that proportionated

punishment

can guarantee

crime

prevention. Given the rational nature of human

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which means they would weigh the benefits against risks,

crime

could be controlled by making

punishment

associated with a criminal

behavior

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more painful than the pleasure or benefits that could be derived from a criminal

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such

as robbery. In view of

this

deterrent effect, the

punishment

should solely be based upon the

crimes

per se other than the milieu of criminals,

therefore

refuting the idea that age could be the mitigating factor. Poverty is perhaps the most concrete

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why people commit

crimes

. Economic deprivation is seen as a major instigator in

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regard. In a country where economic deprivation is rampant, it is common for people to engage in criminal acts.

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and poor economic conditions are what make people prone to commit

crimes

. Another cause could be a lack of parental control. Parents who have

propensity

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a propensity

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for

violence

predispose

children

to violent

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.

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children

, after seeing the repeated and escalating domestic

violence

, may ‘embrace’

violence

as a common and acceptable method to solve interpersonal conflicts, which may prompt them to extend

such

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to others. Drugs have always been highly criticized by critics. A person who is addicted to

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drug

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will at one point in time do something he/she isn’t supposed to do. Drug addicts are often unable to get rid of

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as a result

of which their life starts getting filled with bad habits. A poor lifestyle compels a person to adopt habits

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he/she should distance themselves from. For

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the individual

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, parents should set good examples for their

children

.

This

is because

that parents

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who usually get involved in aggressive

behaviors

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may predispose their

children

to

violence

, which may eventually lead to criminal

behaviors

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. For

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, stringent regulations should be imposed on media content, content that

include

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violence

and sexual harassment, because

children

are prone to imitate the

behaviors

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, especially when the contextual situation is quite similar.

Crimes

can be effectively deterred by more invasive surveillance. Governments now have the capacity to install cameras in the physical world and watch individuals carefully online as well. As criminals are aware there is a

near

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100%

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they will be firmed and arrested,

crime

statistics in those areas are negligible.

This

reduction in

crime

due to an awareness of ubiquitous surveillance can

also

be extended to the online sphere, where law enforcement can monitor VPNs,

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and IP

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address

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to detect and trace illegal activity.

Nonetheless

, some juvenile delinquents, knowing that they would not receive

punishment

as heavy as adults do, commit violent

crime

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in a more brutal way. Certainly, there is a pressing need to formulate rules tailored with regard to the maturity of delinquents. Developed countries

such

as America have adopted

law

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called “malic supplies the want of years”, whereby

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juvenile offenders should be individually assessed as to whether they

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are as

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mature and culpable as the typical adult violent offenders. If

a

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delinquency is proven a

crime

with malice forethought, felonies with vicious influences and fatal consequences, albeit committed by adolescents, deserve appropriate penalties, even life imprisonment or capital penalties.