DQ #3What are the challenges of sentencing juveniles as adults? What dilemmas are associated with...

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DQ #3What are the challenges of sentencing juveniles as adults? What dilemmas are associated with sentencing juveniles to the death penalty?Please remember that your response must be XXXXXXXXXXwords and use at least one academic reference citation in your response in order to receive credit.

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Juvenile Sentencing 
Treating juvenile offenders as adult criminal is never a feasible thing to do. But it is now 
being seen that within the framework of the U.S. criminal justice system the tendency to 
sentence juvenile as adult criminals is rampant. And the primary challenge involved in such kind 
of approach is that though most of the young offenders do not tend to be adult criminals in the 
future, the excessive sentencing of juvenile offenders as adult criminals is actually changing 
these odds and it is now observable that juveniles, who have been tried as adult offenders, have 
become more prone towards committing crimes after their release (Maroney, 2007).  
There are myriads of disadvantages of treating juvenile offenders as adult criminals. The 
primary disadvantage is that if a juvenile offender is tried in a criminal court for adult offenders,

DQ #3 What are the challenges of sentencing juveniles as adults? What dilemmas are associated with sentencing juveniles to the death penalty? Please remember that your response must be XXXXXXXXXXwords...

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