nile court can be rehabilitated and recommends instead that juveniles should be processed through the existing criminal courts (Feld, 2006). Feld says that since the United States Supreme Court has already recognized that juvenile offenders are not to blame as much as adult offenders, then a system must be developed for treating juveniles differently in adult courts.
Feld points out that juveniles are still going through their moral development and yet the juvenile system treats them as if they think and behave as adults, with the same motives and sense of responsibility (Feld, 2006). He says juveniles have not yet internalized the norms and values of society, nor have they developed empathetic identification with others, and they are not yet capable of fully restraining their impulses. Because of this, they should not be treated as adults.
Juveniles, Feld goes on, are more likely to take risks, are more likely to be influenced by their peers, do not have the same perception of time as an adult so don't comprehend the
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