Explain why juveniles are often thought to have lowered responsibility for their actions in a legal sense?

What will be an ideal response?


• Juveniles are generally more impulsive
• Juveniles are more likely to engage in risky behavior
• Juveniles are less likely to calculate the long-term consequences of any particular action
• Adolescents are far more likely to respond to peer pressure than are adults
• The desire for acceptance and approval may drive them to commit crimes; juveniles are arrested as part of a group at much higher rates than adults.

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