Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenville rapists walk free

Re:Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenv... by tptacek on Saturday September 10, 2016 @11:50AM (#12469707)

Minors shoot and kill people all the time, too. In US culture and jurisprudence, we tend to weigh heavily factors that diminish offenders capacity to distinguish right from wrong, and teenagers have both diminished judgement and impulse control capabilities that are at their lifetime low.

We generally try, at least ostensibly, to recognize that long sentences serve no practical purpose when applied to someone who will in just a few years be for many purposes a biologically different person.

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Re:Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenv... by Tomte on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:04PM (#12470873)

How does "tried as an adult" fit into that view?

I've never understood why you would go to the trouble of having special juvenile criminal sentencing ranges and juvenile courts when oftentimes a juvenile does something really bad he is tried as an adult (even more so in the UK, it seems). It would be more straightforward to just exclude murder and other grave crimes from juvenile court altogether.

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Re:Anonymous hacker faces 16 years in prison, while Steubenv... by tptacek on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:41AM (#12473590)

Yeah, it's pretty fucked up.

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