Tried Juveniles

Q: What are the most important factors to consider when deciding whether to charge a juvenile as an adult? Explain your choice.

I think the most important factors that decide whether or not to charge a juvenile as an adult is brain development. They either aren't mature enough, immature, too young, or they do not understand what they are being told in adult court. In the cases that we have read about in our reader and in the Atlantic Monthly they all state a fact due to our brains. At the age of twelve Lionel Tate had been tried as an adult for imitating the moves of a video game onto a young girl that he was roughly playing with. He did not know the danger in these moves as well as what was going to happen in real life. He might have thought it was like the video game where nothing really happens because you get another life to try again. In the studies of the Atlantic Monthly studies show that a brain tumor can change a person in many ways. Even as an adult it can change your needs, actions and also your personality. For example they said a forty year old man named Alex changes his sexual preferences from a normal man to wanting to excessively watch children porn. These changes caused an average person to become a criminal and a danger to society without them wanting to do any harm naturally. This is why I believe its the brain development that matters the most.