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Young Offenders

    These days more and more young people are turning to crimes. These
crimes are being committed by young offenders of all ages. The crimes they are
committing are get even more and more serious and in the last five years the
percentage of youngsters committing more crime has increase by more then 50%.
Young offenders are committing these crimes because the know that the
punishment is real weak. If you ask me most young offenders think the young
offenders act is a JOKE, and trust me I am a young person I know just as other
young people.
    “A young offender is a person between the ages of 12-17. This person is
a person who comities a crime and is given special rights. These right are less
server then adults would get if they committee this same offenses.”
    There are many cases where a young offender has got off much easier then
a adult and no punishment at all. In one case in particular “A boy who was 11
years old who has been in trouble with the law before took a girl with him to
his apartment with his gang and then raped her. Then when the police arrived he
said you can not touch me” . This to me is very sad first off because he is only
11 years old and he raped a girl but the thing I found most shocking and the
rest off the media was that when the police arrived he told them that they could
not touch him. Even though he did committee the crime and he should have been
charged but sadly e was right. This young offenders knows that the young
offenders act is a...

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Submitted by: 123student
Date Submitted: 07-24-2008
Category: Law
Words: 632
Pages: 2.53