Teenagers on Death Row

counterclaim

Some may say gang association may help children be protected however gangs can be a leading cause to them participating in criminal activities.

Rebuttal

paraphrased quote

Teenagers should be sentenced because if they get into the gang you know what you sign up for to participate in negative/violent activities.

Teens are being peer pressured into partaking in bad activities.

(Stosser,1)

direct quote #2

"The office office of surgeon general expresses the less well developed research area of factors that seem to protect youths from viewing violence as an acceptable or inevitable way of approaching or responding to life events."

Teenagers get mad about events happening in their lives so they retaliate negatively which supports my claim.

(Surgeon General, 1)

Direct quote #3

"Sports are fun and engaging for students and provide access to recreation facilities well into the evening which, in a study in Phoenix, Arizona has proved to significantly decrease crime rates."

Participating in sports will decrease free time which would decrease the amount of teens getting sentenced to death row

Direct quote 2

(Stosser,1)

"But we sentence most felons to probation, and most of them, then severely violate their probation until, finally, we send them to prison."

The felons normally get a warning but then they go back into a bad community where they're influenced to commit bad acts.

direct quote #1

(Lasky, 4)

"This problem has been found to be most severe in low- income neighborhoods, where kids are often left unsupervised and inactivate for several hours after school ends."

Where the kids are unsupervised in bad neighborhoods the crime rate is high.

Subtopic 3

(Stosser,1)

direct quote 3

How the environment/community affects the actions of teenagers?

"And those parts of the brain that come on board last, are exactly those part of the brain that do the functions considered to be related to criminal capability."

Thesis

Direct quote #1

The main part or most effective part of your brain develops last which can be the fault for bad actions.

(Becker,3)

Many teenagers don't realize the consequences of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Such actions may end up resulting in being sentenced to death. Teenagers shouldn't be sentenced to death row.

Direct quote 2

"The insulation facilities the brain's ability to transmit information; to understand the past, present, and future; and to interpret its surroundings. Such insulation, the brain is restricted in how well it can interpret complex data and self-censor basic impulses- including violent ones."

Subtopic 2

With more recent advances in magnetic resonance imagining, brain scans on living subjects have become far more sophisticated, allowing neuroscientists to develop detailed maps of how the brain changes overtime , which parts of the brain change first, and which parts mature only in early adulthood."

If this specific part of your brain didn't develop yet then you're going to make a lot bad decisions.

(Becker,2)

The brain is still taking time to develop so mistakes are bound to happen.

(Becker,2)

How can brain development trigger negative or positive behavior?

Subtopic #1

Why are teenagers being sentenced to death row?

Direct quote #1

Why are teenagers being sentenced to death row?

"Teens are becoming more violent because they don't have anything better to do, due to the fact schools aren't funding that many after school programs and activities so the teens start joining gangs and becoming more violent."

Watkins is indirectly saying Teenagers are bored so they find bad activities to partake in. This supports my claim because they want to be occupied so teens find stupid things to do that they later on regret.

(watkins, 3)

Teenagers on Death Row

By: Femi Adebanjo