arguments

These are some of or facts we based our research off of. We used various factual sites, that support our claim.

Read more: [|__http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,110232,00.html#ixzz1b95EaWhm__] || Read more: [|__http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,110232,00.html#ixzz1b95EaWhm__] || [|__http://sks.sirs.com/c gi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SBLESSED267-0-5434&artno=0000288108&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Juvenile%20justice%2C%20Administration%20of&title=Eight%20and%20on%20Trial&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N__] || [|__http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SBLESSED267-0-5434&artno=0000277104&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Juvenile%20justice%2C%20Administration%20of&title=Children%20in%20Adult%20Jails&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N__] ||
 * Evidence || Citation ||
 * =“ A 12-year-old Lauderhill, Fla., boy, who has been charged with killing his 17-month-old cousin...” “...A Miami-Dade boy, Michael Hernandez, was arrested in 2004, one day after his 14th birthday, and charged with killing his best friend with a knife in a restroom at Southwood Middle School in Palmetto Bay. Hernandez will be tried as an adult and faces a life sentence...” = || =Mil Miller, Carol Marbin. "Kids Killing Kids Tests Justice System." McClatchy Newspapers. Jan. 20 2008: n.p. SIRS Researcher. Web. 22 Sep 2011. http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SSTJOHNE267-0-8122&artno=0000271844&type=ART = ||
 * "There are 200 to 300 parricides--the killing of a parent by a child--in the United States each year, with about half committed by youths under 18." || "Killings of Parents Often Stem from Abuse, Case Histories Show." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO). Dec. 2 2001: A11. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 08 Oct 2011. ||
 * SWEET SPRINGS, Mo. -- A mother in Missouri is in trouble with the law after her 6-year-old son brought a crack pipe and bags of methamphetamine to school for show and tell. || "6-year-old brings crack pipe, meth to show and tell" by KTLA http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-crack pipes-show-and tell,0,1809854.story September 21, 2011 web nove 21, 20011 ||
 * ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 16-year-old who was arrested and accused of killing a St. Petersburg police officer made his first court appearance Wednesday and was ordered held without bail. ||  ||
 * The jury's decision on the 15-year-old scofflaw was swift and unanimous: Guilty. Then the 12 jurors moved on to the question of what consequences the vandal should face for his actions. || "Truly a jury of their peers" by Victoria Kim http://article.latimes.com/2010/mar/22/local/la-me-teen-court22-2010mar22. March 22, 2010. Web. Nov. 21, 2011 ||
 * “Third, current research indicates that children as young as nine can reason similarly to an adult aged 18 or 21.” || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Myers, Cherl S., and Angela D. Whipple. "When Should Adolescent Offenders Be Tried As Adults?." Adolescent Development: Current Issues. University Of California, n.d. Web. 18 Oct 2011. <http://education.ucsb.edu/jimerson/adolescenceissues/ADadulttrial.html>. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is absurd to argue that a modern child, who sees the effect of violence around him in the news every day, doesn’t understand what killing really is. The fact that child killers know how to load and shoot a gun is an indicator that they understand exactly what they’re doing.” || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reaves, Jessica. "Should the Law Treat Kids and Adults Differently?." Time.com. Time, 17 May 2001. Web. 27 Oct 2011. <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,110232,00.html
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kids today are more sophisticated at a younger age; they understand the implications of violence and how to use violent weapons. It is absurd to argue that a modern child, who sees the effect of violence around him in the news every day, doesn’t understand what killing really is. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reaves, Jessica. "Should the Law Treat Kids and Adults Differently?." Time.com. Time, 17 May 2001. Web. 27 Oct 2011. <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,110232,00.html
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">California law has viewed the age of 14 as the turning point toward perceiving the "adolescent-as-adult." || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Myers, Cherl S., and Angela D. Whipple. "When Should Adolescent Offenders Be Tried As Adults?." Adolescent Development: Current Issues. University Of California, n.d. Web. 18 Oct 2011. <http://education.ucsb.edu/jimerson/adolescenceissues/ADadulttrial.html>. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It would not prohibit life without parole sentences for juveniles but lets courts reveiw such cases 15 years after sentencing. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Balassone, Merill. “ Difference In Sentencing of Two Juveniles Highlight Difficult Issue.”McClatchy Newspaper. 21 Aug 2010: n.p. Web. 13 Oct 2011 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">About 250,000 youths under 18 are prosecuted in adult court annually, according to report. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moore, Martha T. “Fewer Kids Sent to Adult Court.”USA TODAY. 16 Mar 2011: A.3. Web. 13 Oct 2011 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8 years old and on trial for murder of 2 people. This case forces the courts to look at ages and the severity of the crime. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Searcey, Dionne. "Eight and on Trial." Wall Street Journal. 11 Dec 2008: A.16. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 03 Nov 2011.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Children who are confined to adult jails are at greater risk of being raped, battered or pushed to suicide. They also are more likely to become violent criminals than children handled through the juvenilejustice system. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" Children in Adult Jails." New York Times (New York, NY). 23 May 2008: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 03 Nov 2011.

= =