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“Youth offenders should not be dealt with more leniently than adult offenders.� Critically discuss this statement.

There are many controversial issues that challenge our society in contemporary times, but one that raises much debate is youth offenders and if they should be dealt with in the same way as adult offenders. In modern times people are no longer surprised when children commit crimes but rather than basing our judgement around personalised review of circumstances, offence committed, mental, social and intellectual factors we automatically believe that they are deviant and not likely to change. In this essay I argue that unless the juvenile poses a genuine threat to the safety of other juveniles, the severity of their offence warrants a more severe punishment or they have a history of repeated offending where rehabilitation has been exhausted, then juveniles should not be prosecuted in the adult system. There are many implications of transferring juveniles into......

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