Juveniles should be punished instead of offering other forms of rehabilitation. IE. Residental Counseling

Juvenile Punishment

An important question at hand is how juvenile crime must be punished Right now most juvenile crime cases are currently handled by the juvenile court system . If given permission , juveniles can be tried as adults , but current laws prohibit juveniles from being housed with adult criminals . So most juveniles convicted as adults are housed in juvenile facility until they reach the age of 18 . There are about 100 ,000 juvenile offenders annually who are on probation in California . The majority of these offenders are on formal probation , which means that

br they appear in front of court to resolve their cases . In most informal case , they not need to appear in front of the court , because the probation department is able to directly impose needed sanctions . After the completion of informal probation , juveniles have their records wiped clean

For proposition 21 the government has come up with an initiative , which would try offenders as adults rather than juvenile . Proposition 21 would require juvenile offenders 14 years or older to be charged as adults . It would eliminate informal probation , and further limit confidentiality for juveniles who are charged with or convicted of specified felonies Proposition would require that certain juvenile crime offenders be held in a local or state correctional facilities rather than in juvenile facilities . Prop . 21 would designate certain crimes as violent and serious , thereby making offenders subject to longer sentences . These are the ideas of Proposition 21 , but as with many propositions , it does not come cheap

Right now the cost of vandalism , in order for it to be a felony is fifty thousand dollars . So this means that if a person just happens to write I love Judy ' on a tree , it will be considered a felony offense and the teenager will be taken to jail . This also means that the three strikes law is going to be in more use because of the fact that more felonies are going to be committed . If a person steels a pack of gum and gets caught that will be considered a strike because it would be a felony . Proposition 21 was also established to supposedly make communities safer , but in reality it is doing nothing for them . This proposition is not going to stop kids from joining gangs or even committing crimes . It 's a fact that , as a child , a person does many immature things that he /she regrets in the future . Some of these kids go a little overboard but recuperate through rehabilitation

Between 1983 and 1998 crimes , such as robberies , rapes , and assaults have risen an outstanding 60 .6 and will continue to rise unless some sort of action is taken to stop this type of behavior . Most people would agree that such crimes should not go unpunished and that incarceration is one of the only answers for people who commit these crimes . So then why are so many people against proposition twenty-one ? Simple , people feel that juveniles do not have the ability to think...