U.S.A. Takes Another Look At Juvenile Crime Laws

After further review, the United States of America is now reconsidering whether or not juvenile offenders should be charged as adults.

Recent studies have determined that prosecuting juveniles in the adult courts can have negative effects on the mental and moral developments of teenagers. These particular teens end up getting into more trouble as a result, and the crimes that they commit are much worse.

"It's really the trifecta of bad criminal justice policy," mentioned Shay Bilchik, the head of Georgetown University's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform. "People didn't know that at the time the changes were made. Now we do, and we have to learn from it."

In the 1990's, juvenile offenses were becoming a major problem and politicians took action to try and control it. However, in recent years it is apparent that juvenile crime has gone down and it turns out that alternative measures for punishing juveniles have more positive results.

"The net was thrown too broadly," mentioned Howard Snyder. "When you make these general laws ... a lot of people believe they made it too easy for kids to go into the adult system and it's not a good place to be." Snyder is a research associate at the National Center for Juvenile Justice.

Various states are now rethinking the “life without parole” punishment for juveniles. In addition, a handful of states have considered increasing the age of juvenile court jurisdiction, and some are in the process of creating some "second chance" programs.

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