It is unfair for American children to know that, although they may be innocent, in some states they are treated as adults when they turn thirteen. Although children must learn the difference between right and wrong early in life, most of them do not have enough experience to demonstrate that they are capable of living independently in society. However, when they commit a serious crime, either accidentally or intentionally, the state mandate allows judges to try them as adults. There is a flaw here because they do not have a clear personality, nor can they easily understand how humans abide by the law, nor do they have the cognitive ability to understand how to live in society. This article will argue that the idea of ​​trying children for their crimes as adults in the United States is too extreme. In the United States, when one turns eighteen, people consider the individual to be an adult, but there is no written national law. , nor a statement in the UN conventions that I am aware of that states that a person is an adult at that age. The age of eighteen is accepted as the norm because the Constitution states that, under the 26th Amendment, people can vote. Furthermore, although it is up to the states to decide, eighteen is the age when people can get a driver's license and buy cigarettes. Controversially, however, there are no state or federal laws that dictate at what age a person can go to an adult. court or prison if found guilty of an unforgivable crime. An example of this is in Alabama, where two fourteen-year-old males are currently serving life sentences for murder, but for the nonprofit group Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama this is cruel and unusual punishment that violates their human rights . ..... half of the paper ... in juvenile cases: extenuating circumstances and extralegal circumstances matter. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 12(1), 21.Redlich, A., Quas, J., & Ghetti, S. (2008). Children's perceptions during a police interrogation: Guilt, confessions, and fairness of the interview. Psychology, Crime and Law, 14(3), 201.Shook, J. (2005). Contesting childhood in the U.S. justice system: The transfer of juveniles to adult criminal court. Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 12(4), 461-478. Scott, E., & Steinberg, L. (2008). Adolescent development and the regulation of juvenile crime. The Future of Children, 18(2), 15-33.Semple, J., & Woody, W. (2011). Minors tried as adults: The age of the minor matters. Psychological Reports, 109(1), 301-308. Steiner, B., & Giacomazzi, A. (2007). Juvenile waiver, boot camp, and recidivism in a northwestern state. Prison newspaper, 87(2), 227.