Reflection

Starting these blogs seemed like it would be easy just a weekly paper on a topic of our choice, but it proved to be more of a challenge. Choosing a topic was the easy part, I knew I wanted to do something that involved teenagers but wasn't sure what exactly. I came up with two options; one was how teens are and how they have been percives in society though out history, the second was juveniles being tried in the adult (criminal) court.

This blog is about juveniles in adult courts but my original blog had been how teens were perceived. After about three weeks the topic of how teens were perceived in society started to become a huge challenge in finding research, from credible sources. To be honest after trying for a while and only doing about three blogs I gave up on that topic, and once I was behind it just got that much harder to get caught up.

My teacher Mrs. Wright gave me and some other students with the same problem the option to start over with a fresh topic but less time, which is reasonable considering the blogs should have done. For the new blog (this one) I choose to go with the juveniles in adult court option. It has defiantly been easier to find credible sources and research related this topic. I have learned a lot about how both the juvenile and adult courts work, and why it is that juveniles can be transferred. After reading many articles and gathering research I feel that I have gained a better understanding of why teens can be transferred and also why juveniles courts are important.

Now after learning about the justice systems and why they operate the way that they do, I hope to learn of ways that we can still improve the system. My main concern is teenagers as young as thirteen can automatically be transferred into adult court for certain crimes and because they are in the adult system they can be punished as adults and spend their lives in jail.

Being given a second opportunity to not fail English has taught me not procrastinate and ask for help when needed instead of letting the problem elevate. Juveniles can learn the same if given the chance to rehabilitate and fix their problem, learn how to change for the better, if kept in juvenile courts.