Some young people commit serious crimes, such as robbery or violent attacks. Some people think they should be punished in the same way as adults. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Whether minor criminals deserve the same punishment as adult convicts have been in the spotlight all over the world. However, this essay will prove that people should stop wavering between punishing these young criminals less seriously and imposing the same treatment to them, while discussing minor outlaws over 14 or 15 years old who violate laws severely. Namely, the existence of different treatments between adult culprits and young offenders in this case does not make any sense. Primarily, objectors assert that these young criminals might be instigated by others to commit crimes, and their subjectivity of breaking laws is relatively limited. Seemingly, they break the law unwillingly and involuntarily. In fact, most felonies are committed premeditatedly with well-organized plans, and even schoolchildren can easily estimate severe outcomes of these serious crimes with the common sense they got from school and their parents. An instance in point is that there is no convincing evidence to show that minor criminals who robbed a supermarket with guns have less willingness to do so than an adult who does the same thing. Additionally, another standpoint these objectors hold is chances are that young culprits can be more easily remoulded. Nevertheless, the truth is that due to the serious crimes those young culprits took part in, they are all sentenced to at least 8 or 10 years in prison. After serving their sentence in juvenile detention for 3 or 4 years, they of course would be transferred to ordinary jails because they become adults. Thereafter, their new cell mates might tell them that how they felt when they killed people they did not like. And the prisoner who they are weeding with could help them analyze why they need a shotgun for robbing a bank rather than a rifle. People could imagine what would happen if those young people return to our society after a few years. Forgiveness for wrong people is punishment for upright citizens, and consequently young people with unforgivable behaviors ought to be imposed the same treatment as adults to let them know what the crime cost is.