Topic > The Pros and Cons of Juvenile Crime - 1514

But I was just a child when I did it. “A brutal kitchen brawl between a Conyers mother and her teenage twin daughters ended in the death of a mother,” prosecutors said on behalf of Jamecca Whitehead. On January 13, 2010, Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead's lives had officially changed and they weren't even aware of it. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution it was a normal morning for the Whitehead twins, but like any other human being, we sometimes run late or oversleep for various reasons that cannot be explained (Garner). Before the day of the murder, the twins had been living with their great-grandmother due to previous family problems, but eventually returned to live with their mother. It had been a normal day, the twins told local investigators, but their mother was simply angry because they had missed the school bus. The twins felt like their mom had made up her mind. From a real life experience at the age of seventeen, my brother was followed as an adult. Many fear harm from dangerous adults, but when he began serving his sentence, he was never exposed to the adult population. When he turned eighteen he was then moved into the adult population. The juvenile system has essentially become a system of stooges (“Juvenile Justice System”). Most of the people who have different opinions about how safe the atmosphere behind the bar is are mostly the ones looking from the outside and don't really know. I believe that most people who find themselves behind bars are not all bad people, but who that person is does not matter based on the judgment for crimes that harmed many civilians. Many people learn from other mistakes, and if someone learned from the mistakes of their peers, they wouldn't want to make the same ones