Juvenile Justice

[elwoodblues]

How should society deal with Juveniles who commit crimes?

It seems like in recent years we've been hearing more and more about trying a minor as an adult for whatever reason. Is this the system that we want? Is there a reason to have two different systems for justice? What standards/reasons make it appropriate to try a juvenile as an adult? -- do you base it on age, crime committed, maturity, etc??

Interested in people's thoughts. The one reason that is often brought up for trying a juvenile as an adult is that they "committed an adult crime." I don't buy into that one. That's just another way of saying "we want to punish him more."