Serious violent crimes among people who are under-18 are becoming more common. Some people think that children who commit serious crimes should be treated like adults, while others would say that they should be rehabilitated. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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Violent
crimes
among teenagers are becoming more popular. Some
people
argue that children who commit dangerous
crimes
should be treated like adults.
while
others say the best way to
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them is by
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rehabilitating
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rehabilitated
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rehabilitated them
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.
This
essay will discuss both
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views.
People
who think that children should be treated like
people
who are in adulthood when they commit
crimes
,
they
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lack
of
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knowledge about
this
important period. They forget that teenagers
in
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this
age have many changes in their
mind
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and in their
body
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bodies
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.
Although
they can not control
themselfs
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themselves
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as well as
adult
person
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people
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.
For example
, a study at Harvard University shows that many young
people
who commit
crimes
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have many mental issues.
For
this
reason
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reason,
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young
people
need some special treatment
what
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that
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is suitable for
them
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their
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age. On another hand, some
people
think that
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rehabilitation
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is the best way to treat
this
type of
criminals
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criminal
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. Because
this
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these
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people
are in
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period and they are more capable
to fix
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of fixing
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their personalities.
For instance
, the
goverment
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government
of Japan decided to
treated
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treat
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people
who
are
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commit serious
crimes
by
rehabilitated
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rehabilitating
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them befor
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befor
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before
send
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sending
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them to jail. and
this
show
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a great results
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great results
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after just two years.
To sum up
, serious
crimes
among young
people
are more common these days.
This
essay
discuss
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both
of
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views. In my
opinin
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opinion
opinin'
,
rehabilitated
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rehabilitation
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is the best treatment for
people
who commit
crimes
in
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at
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young
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a young
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age.
That's
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can help them to fix their personalities
befor
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before
sending them to jail.
While
treatd
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treating
these
people
like adults can give us
a opposite results
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opposite results
an opposite result
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.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Juvenile delinquency
  • Justice system
  • Deterrence
  • Cognitive development
  • Accountability
  • Severity of punishment
  • Rehabilitation
  • Restorative justice
  • Root causes of crime
  • Recidivism
  • Reintegrate
  • Impulse control
  • Environmental factors
  • Incarceration
  • Law-abiding citizen
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