Juveniles should not be tried and sentenced as adults due to their lack of maturity and the awareness of the consequences. Although complicated factors such as family background can be accounted for the long-term causes of the crimes and there’s little chance to change the situation, Juveniles should be given the chances to receive the morally correct education and to be saved.
If juvenile’s were limited from all kinds of social benefits and freedom an adult can have including drinking alcohol and vote as a citizen, why should they be treated as adults when it comes to the bad decision-making by an undeveloped brain. In reality, the reasoning behind these social rules can be easily seen—adults have a better knowledge and social awareness, which can help them make a better and more sophisticated decision than juveniles. In this case, if teenagers’ lack of maturity forbids them from receiving the same freedom as adults do, why they should receive the same punishments as adults do. Data provided by the article “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” shows that “these frontal lobes, which inhibit our violent passions, ash actions, and regulate our emotions” are “vastly immature throughout the teenage years”. The fact that the loss of brain tissues in the teenage brains would thus make the teenagers impulsive, and easily angry due to the lack of emotional controls, well explains the teenager’s miserable behaviors. Also, due to the fact that nowadays more and more video games become