Juvenile Justice: Should Minors be charged as Adults? <Tab/>A movement has started in our country to renovate the juvenile justice system. This movement wants to erase any differences between young offenders and adult criminals. Almost all fifty states have changed their juvenile justice laws, allowing more youths to be tried as adults and abandoning long-time efforts to help rehabilitate delinquent kids and prevent future crimes. It seems to be plain …showed first 75 words of 1613 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1613 total…but now everyone wants to ignore the definition because juvenile crime has gotten uglier. The minor is still a minor, no matter how ugly the act is. Works Cited 1. Harbrick, James "Proposition 21" <"www.lao.ca.gov/initiatives/2000/21_03_2000.html"> December 14, 2002. 2. Anonymous "History of Youth Crime" <www.ycwa.org/theorg/history.htm> April 12, 1999 3. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention "Homepage" <ojjdp.ncjrs.org> January 4, 2004