Juvenile Crime
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Juvenile Crime
In California juvenile offenders who commit serious crimes can be kept in the system until they are twenty-five years old. A man named Donald Schmidt, age thirty-seven, though is the oldest defendant ever in California’s juvenile system. This man, at the age of sixteen, molested and drowned a three year old girl. Should he be sentenced to life in juvenile prison because he is mentally challenged?
At age sixteen Mr. Schmidt molested and drowned a three year old girl while high on methamphetamine. He has been in juvenile facilities for a little more than two decades, sometimes along teenagers that were not even born when he was convicted. Schmidt's detention has been extended under a rare state code that allows continued detention if a jury finds that the criminal has a “mental disorder, defect or abnormality that causes the person to have serious difficulty controlling his or her dangerous behavior." Because Mr. Schmidt was convicted as a juvenile and was continued to be held under that mental health code, Schmidt cannot be transferred to an adult facility where he belongs.
According to a jury Mr. Schmidt should not be released to the public because he is determined to be a psycopath and his behavior is violent. But according to staff members at his facility say he had excelled in his treatment, he had a full time job; he had earned his high school diploma and served as a grief counselor for his much younger detainees. So should he be let out to be free in the public or should he be transferred to an adult facility?
Personally I believe that if Schmidt stays in jail he should be transferred to and adult facility because it is not right for a grown man to be in a juvenile facility even if he is mentally challenged. Although Schmidt has served most of his time in a juvenile facility, he should either be transferred. But if he should be let out into the public community, I believe that he should be put on probation and be registered as a sex...
In California juvenile offenders who commit serious crimes can be kept in the system until they are twenty-five years old. A man named Donald Schmidt, age thirty-seven, though is the oldest defendant ever in California’s juvenile system. This man, at the age of sixteen, molested and drowned a three year old girl. Should he be sentenced to life in juvenile prison because he is mentally challenged?
At age sixteen Mr. Schmidt molested and drowned a three year old girl while high on methamphetamine. He has been in juvenile facilities for a little more than two decades, sometimes along teenagers that were not even born when he was convicted. Schmidt's detention has been extended under a rare state code that allows continued detention if a jury finds that the criminal has a “mental disorder, defect or abnormality that causes the person to have serious difficulty controlling his or her dangerous behavior." Because Mr. Schmidt was convicted as a juvenile and was continued to be held under that mental health code, Schmidt cannot be transferred to an adult facility where he belongs.
According to a jury Mr. Schmidt should not be released to the public because he is determined to be a psycopath and his behavior is violent. But according to staff members at his facility say he had excelled in his treatment, he had a full time job; he had earned his high school diploma and served as a grief counselor for his much younger detainees. So should he be let out to be free in the public or should he be transferred to an adult facility?
Personally I believe that if Schmidt stays in jail he should be transferred to and adult facility because it is not right for a grown man to be in a juvenile facility even if he is mentally challenged. Although Schmidt has served most of his time in a juvenile facility, he should either be transferred. But if he should be let out into the public community, I believe that he should be put on probation and be registered as a sex...