Juvenile Justice is Delinquent By Rita Kramer Juvenile Justice is Delinquent, written by Rita Kramer, is an excellent example of how more and more violent crimes are committed by youthful offenders, usually under the age of seventeen. Kramer has given several examples of how children can commit crimes such as rape, murder, and robbery, yet they get away with a light punishment or nothing at all. In the 1950’s, a juvenile delinquent rarely committed violent …showed first 75 words of 599 total…

…showed last 75 words of 599 total…rape or murder are frequently tried as adults, and if convicted are sentenced to a juvenile prison until they are eighteen and then they are moved to an adult prison to serve remainder of their term There are still many loopholes in the judicial system for youthful offenders, as Kramer points out, that still lead them to believe that they can get away with robbery, murder, and rape with little or no punishment at all.