The_Morality_In_Juvenile_Justice

The Morality In Juvenile Justice The Morality in Juvenile Justice: The current trend of trying juvenile offenders as adults in cases of violent crime. In March 2001, 14-year-old Lionel Tate was convicted in Florida of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole. Florida is just one of many states that have over the past decade enacted laws to try offenders such as Tate as adults. And under Florida state law, a conviction of first-degree murder requires a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Tate was just 12 when he battered a six-year-old girl to death while pretending to be a pro-wrestler. But when those who had fought hard for his conviction saw the pudgy adolescent crying at his sentencing, the actual adults in this case indicated that they were having second-thoughts as to the appropriateness of this societal strategy. Prosecutor Ken Padowitz, for example, having succeeded in his goal of convicting Tate, vowed publicly to intercede on Tate's behalf and ask Florida Governor Jeb Bush to commute the sentence, and the Governor has promised to consider it (Ripley 34). As this indicates, the country is far from certain how to best handle youthful offenders who commit violent and/or serious crimes. adults, juvenile, morality, moral, mill, anonymous, action, young, kant, juveniles, society, perspective, kantian, issue, happiness, crimes, view, utilitarianism, one, offenders, minors, good, death, because, adult, wrote, tate, state, sentence, penalty, life, laws, florida, first, duty