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crimes are being committed by young offenders of all ages. The crimes they are committing are get even more and more serious and in the last five years the percentage of youngsters committing more crime has increase by more then 50%. Young offenders are committing these crimes because the know that the punishment is real weak. If you ask me most young offenders think the young offenders act is a JOKE, and trust me I am a young person I know just as other young people.
“A young offender is a person between the ages of 12-17. This person is a person who comities a crime and is given special rights. These right are less server then adults would get if they committee this same offenses.”
There are many cases where a young offender has got off much easier then a adult and no punishment at all. In one case in particular “A boy who was 11 years old who has been in trouble with the law before took a
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In another case a teen was charged for a murder. Police charged a 15-year-old with second-degree murder. This is another typical example of what youth are doing and getting away with. “ A pair of grade 10 students armed with a knife and a gun tried to hijack a school bus from Osoyoos , B. He could care less about what he did. Even though he did committee the crime and he should have been charged but sadly he was right. This teen committed a crime of murder and got charged with second degree murder but if a adult had committed this offense he would have got charged with first degree murder. This young offenders knows that the young offenders act is a joke and that is why he committed the crime. “An 18-year-old was killed with a baseball bat Tuesday after he was trapped at the entrance to a shopping mall in Hamilton by six youths out settle a grudge against his younger brother.
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