Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Reflection on "Juvies"
Reflecting back on the movie "Juvies" makes me think about the children I've grown up with and my little brothers, sisters, cousins, and family friends. I could see them in those children in the movie and it hit me hard. Children are callled children for a reason. They have yet to develop the proper cognitive skills for rational mature thinking. Punishing children as adults is fruitless. It is taking away their lives before they had a chance to begin. Children should be corrected and lead down a positive path while still respecting their backgrounds and upbringings. I think of my sister who is 19 now and how many times she makes my hand slap against my forehead in frustration at the stupid ignorant things she can say and do and to think of one of her many horrible judgements landing her in jail for her natural life scares me. A life is precious no matter who's it is and all prisoners should have services to help rehabilitate them to be functional members of societies but it should be in place especially with the younger ones who have yet to start their lives in the real world.
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I totally agree with you when it comes to putting children into an adult prison. It has been proven by scientists and psychologists that kids younger than eighteen are still going through stages of development to become an adult. So why are people insisting that kids be punished as an adult? I believe that the people who do believe in early punishment are arrogant to the fact that teenagers only know the consequence of their action and not the creditability for what they have done. In other words kids know if they have done something wrong and know that they could go to jail for the rest of their life but they are too young to even realize how awful of an experience jail can provide. Also as a teenager when your talking about a life long sentence its hard to comprehend that period of time when you have lived less then eighteen years. Punishments at that age consist of detentions and time out; never should it include permanent jail time.
Some of our society has trouble understanding the adversity that young urban kids have to deal with daily. I believe most of them are quick to think that if they were never tempted to carry out some of these stupid things that adolescents do in the city then they should automatically be dealt with in a harsh fashion. What they have failed to understand is that in the city, kids are tempted and sometimes forced into carrying out things they rather not take part in doing. Our society must understand the differences in communities children are raised in and how this can effect their decisions in life.
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