Juvenile offenders who commit solemn malefactions shouldn’t be trialed as an adult because studies have shown that simply giving more astringent sentences doesn’t “scare straighten” the offenders. Putting younger generations in locked up facilities with malefactors older has the potential for more damage than good on inverting their life of malefaction. Prisons have gang ravishes, more rigorous murderers, and child molesters just aching for a thirteen year who purloined or attempted murder to walk in.
To date, there's no extensive research comparing the lengths of prison sentences received by juveniles convicted in criminal court with those who remained in the juvenile system (PBS). Extensive research done on this topic has proven that juveniles convicted in adult court and sentenced to mundane prisons end up going back to malefaction sooner; however more rigorous. The only evidence that researchers have been able to prove is that when processed in a malefactor court the offender’s sentences end up only harsher than in the juvenile system, but still don’t “scare straight” the…show more content… Both showed no evidence of authentic positive distinctions between putting juveniles in either system. Another set of studies additionally have shown that just because you move a juvenile into the harder adult prison system doesn’t mean you’re going to straighten them out of the malefaction life. In 1996, a Florida study authored by Donna Bishop, a Northeastern University Researcher concluded that offenders have higher rates to likely revert back to criminal negligence and sooner after leaving adult prison facilities than leaving the juvenile facility. According to Pbs’ Frontline “This research compared the recidivism rates of 2,738 juvenile offenders transferred to criminal court in Florida with a matched sample of non-transferred
