Our society have been suffering an increasing of the levels of criminality. The police’s statistics shows that Crimes as robbery, murder, and extortion have increase 45 percent. That is an alarming figure, but unfortunately it is not the most dangerous problem. The police have published an inform accounting that our society is not working good enough to educate our children, as 50 percent of the criminals arrested by robbery are young people under 18 years old. In addition, the police show that 25 percent of the murders in the city were made for under-age people. One of the reasons of this problem is that delinquent gangs have been recruiting under-age people. That occurs because the law has not stipulated sanctions for them as strong as for the adults. So, an important group in the senate is promoting a law project by which under-age people could be judged as an adult.

The reasons given by this group are moral and practical. On one hand, they claim that young delinquent that commit crimes as murder or extortion are conscious enough of their acts and because of that they are as responsible of their acts as the adults and therefore they should be judged as an adult. On the other hand, the promotors of this law say that if young people are punished in jails for adults, the leaders of delinquent gangs would stop recruiting them to commit crimes. Besides, this law origin a feeling of fear in the young people that make them turn his live to the legal way.

A strong resistance to this proposal has been originated from several sectors of the society. Defensor of the rights of young people have declared that this law is cruel to the young people and harmful to the society. They claim that young people could suffer serious physical and phycological injuries inside the adult’s jails and that their reclusion in those enclosures could not help them to rehabilitate. Conversely the young people could learn new crime skills and could create a sentiment of resentment against the society. Given that, this apparent solution would increase the levels of crime in the city rather than reduce them.

While groups of resistance groups announce two protest on Thursday and Wednesday, senators prepare his final decision, and some of the predictors say that, since the law has been supported for the president, likely the “yes” will win the elections. We will have to wait until Monday afternoon to know the results.  

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