Trying Children as Adults

A Criminal is not an Adult at Any Age

All children do stupid things. When I was about 7 years old, my cousin and I were throwing bricks and I was hit in the head. My grandmother was very upset and grounded me for a week. Needless to say, I never threw bricks again. Throwing bricks was a stupid stunt that I definitely learned my lesson from. However, there are kids who habitually do stupid things and seemingly never learn their lesson. In some instances, there are kids who take doing stupid things to a whole new level, and end up seriously hurting themselves or someone else, by committing serious crimes, or even worse, murder. Should these kids be tried as adults or should these kids be sentenced to counseling and a rehabilitative program? We will look at some of the reason why children commit these atrocities and at what I believe is the