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[quote=Anonymous]I still have trouble with the idea that juveniles should be tried as adults because the crime was really bad. It just screams of playing to emotion and outrage rather than logic. The justice system should not be about emotion and outrage. "How would you feel if it was your child?" is not the right question. If it were my child I'd want to go after the perps with a tire iron, but that doesn't suddenly become OK, either.

If you claim that a 15-year-old has an adult capacity for crime, then why is the age of majority not 15? Upon conviction, will the juvenile also gain the right to smoke cigarettes and enter into binding contracts like an adult, or do they only have an adult criminal brain and the rest of them is too immature? The inconsistency is nonsensical.

In much of the world, the age of criminal responsibility is 14 or 15. Or higher. That doesn't mean that they charge kids under 15 as juveniles. It means they don't charge them with anything at all because they are presumed to lack capacity until that point.

I get what the law in MD says. I don't think the law has it right. The American justice system is a mess based mostly on what feels right and not based in what science or data actually say about things. Many things that feel good are not actually the right thing to do.

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