Juvenile Punishment Options

[BamBamBoogie]

True or false: The sentencing of juveniles to life without parole constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment.”

[karmakiller]

Not everyone can be rehabilitated, and in my opinion, for a child to be rehabilitated it's going to take more than just access to good counseling. If a child is living in an environment where crime is the norm and his or her parents aren't involved parents or positive role models it's going to make it more difficult for that child to get rehabilitated. A lot of people where I live are in favor of juvenile rehabilitation because it focuses more on accountability than punishment. If you're a young, impressionable kid who ends up in adult jail for a nonviolent crime you're going to be able to learn from hardened criminals.

I would assume that getting statistics about how well rehabilitation works would a little difficult, but here's a snippet:

"Research has shown that kids processed through the juvenile court are safer once released to the community than kids processed through the adult court. In Wisconsin, only 13.8% of kids returned to the community after being in a juvenile correctional placement commit a new crime that results in incarceration within two years. For
girls, that percentage drops to around 8%. That means that 92% of the girls and about 86% of the boys released from juvenile corrections will not have a new offense within 2 years which results in a new incarceration."

then again, who wants to pay for it?