Raising the Age of Trying People as Adults Back to 21

Antonio Reza

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Chapter 9 Raising the Age of Trying People as Adults Back to 21

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Pages:: 183–198

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004711105_010

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This chapter will explain why we need to raise the age to try, sentence, and punish people as adults in our criminal justice system. I will discuss how a person is considered an adult in America and how fluid it has been. This paper focuses on the history of our criminal justice system and how charging people as adults has fluctuated, highlighting that the age of trying people as adults was not always 18 but rather 21. It will focus on the biological and scientific reasons we need to raise the age of trying people as adults at a higher age – mainly focusing on brain development. Lastly, it will focus on theoretical and psychological reasons we should raise the age as well as its impacts on society, mixed with anecdotal evidence to support the claims.

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Criminalization Vol. II

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Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 300

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004711105

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 14 Nov 2024

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