Persuasive essay about why the juvenille justice system isn't harsh enough.

The Juvenile Justice System is not harsh enough... Did you know that juveniles accounted for almost half the arrests for serious crimes in the United States in 1974 and for less than one-third in 1983? Did you know that recent trends show an increase in arrests of adolescents for murder, assault, and weapon use? The small number of youth who commit the most serious and violent offenses are becoming more and more violent. I found these statistics …

…It would be simply deterrence, retribution, and punishment. Crime rates would go down, and there would be more productive juveniles to run the world as adults. However a person looks at this topic, it is easy to see that the System is not harsh enough. If crime rates are high among juveniles, the Juvenile Justice System is not harsh enough. Furthermore, if lifers in prison were juvenile delinquents, the System is definitely NOT harsh enough.