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Week 2 Discussion Board

Week 2 Discussion Board

Q 1. What are some of the risk factors that contributed to Ashlee's criminal behavior? Connect to chapter 2. 2. Should she have been charged as a juvenile or an adult? Explain. 3. Considering the mitigating factors, what would you recommend as a sentence for Ashlee.

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Human beings, especially juveniles are not born criminals, but various factors push them to commit criminal offenses. These factors may be prenatal and perinatal, psychological, behavioral, and mental characteristics, social factors like family disturbance or family structure and peer pressure, and community factors like educational institutions rules, policies and neighborhood factors (Siegel, & Welsh, 2016).