“Juvenile Justice” review: behind juvenile delinquents, does character determine fate?

Another hit on Netflix is ​​”Juvenile Justice”, a juvenile crime drama produced by the team behind the hit Korean drama “Signal”.

“Juvenile Justice” tells the story of District Court Judge Shen Eun-hee after he took office as the Juvenile Criminal Collegiate Division.

As a TV series with a socially sensitive theme, “Juvenile Justice” can be said to have its own traffic, and the filming is also good, so it is normal to cause heated discussions.

13-year-old Bai Youcheng surrendered eight hours after the murder.

According to Bai Youcheng’s testimony, he was on the side of the road at the time. The 8-year-old victim Zhixu wanted to borrow his mobile phone to call his mother. At this time, Bai Youcheng’s mobile phone was out of power, so he cheated Zhixu back home, strangled him.

After that, a cruel scene appeared.

Bai Youcheng used a mountaineering axe to dismember Zhixu and discarded the corpse. Since Bai Youcheng mixed some of Zhixu’s body into the kitchen waste, it was difficult to recover it. Poor Zhixu’s family could only find Zhixu’s body incomplete. funeral was held.

It stands to reason that there is always a reason for killing, but Bai Youcheng and Zhixu have never known each other, and they have no grievances or hatred. The reason why Bai Youcheng killed Zhixu is that she wanted to kill at the time, and Zhixu appeared at the right time.

Such a cruel method of murder, but because Bai Youcheng was under 14 years old, he was exempted from criminal responsibility and only needed to spend two years in a juvenile reform through labor.

But in these 2 years of reform through labor, Bai Youcheng tried his best to escape. He first said that he had schizophrenia, and after being exposed by Shen Enxi, he said that he was mentally ill, but Shen Enxi proved it to be nothing.

Not only does Bai Youcheng have no mental illness, but there is a third person in the murder, 17-year-old Han Ruien.

In fact, this Han Ruien was the real murderer. Han Ruien urged Bai Youcheng to tell false evidence because she knew clearly that because of Bai Youcheng’s age, the law could not do anything about him.

Han Ruien was finally sentenced to 20 years, but what will happen when Han Ruien is released from prison in 20 years?

That is the responsibility of the parents.

Someone asked Shen Eun-seok, why do you want to be a judge in the juvenile court?

Shen Enxi’s answer was: I hate juvenile offenders extremely.

In Shen Enxi’s view, due to various reasons, it is very difficult for these juvenile delinquents to rehabilitate.

Why Shen Enxi hates juvenile delinquents so much is because his son was accidentally killed by two children Huang Renjun and Bai Duxuan when he was 5 years old. Because the sentence was too light, only 5 years later, Huang Renjun and Bai Duxuan and the other two Teenagers form a gang and stand in juvenile court again.

According to the confessions of Huang Renjun and Bai Duxuan, they were doing gravity science experiments on the top floor. They played with bricks and threw them down, which happened to hit Shen Enxi’s son and caused him to die on the spot.

Although Huang Renjun and Bai Duxuan were still young at the time, the law could not do anything to them, but as a judge, they should have been informed of the dangers of their actions and the consequences, but the judge, the current minister, did not do so. The case was closed in just 3 minutes.

Seeing Huang Renjun and Bai Duxuan walking out with a smile, Shen Enxi’s heart was broken.

Because they didn’t realize that disregarding the law has a price, Huang Renjun and Bai Duxuan were charged again for collective sexual assault five years later.

In this case, Bai Duxuan is the mastermind. He has done all the bad things. In the words of his accomplices, as long as he doesn’t listen to him, he will stab people with a knife.

Because of Bai Duxuan’s violence, many people are afraid of him, and because he is rich, he has slowly become the leader of a bunch of gangsters.

Bai Duxuan became more and more courageous, and gradually grew from a child who did not commit any subjective crime to a criminal who was extremely harmful to society.

So, does Bai Duxuan have a chance to realize his mistake after breaking the law for the first time and correct himself?

It is also possible, but the premise is that they need to know how much they have offended, and this depends on family education, as a juvenile offender in the play said:

If we had a good pair of parents, we wouldn’t be reduced to this.

Psychological upbringing is more important than material upbringing. More than one of Bai Duxuan’s accomplices said that following him, on the one hand, he is cruel, and on the other hand, he is rich.

Most of this money is given by parents.

Not only Bai Duxuan, but in the first case, after Bai Youcheng’s mother knew that Bai Youcheng had violated the law, she kept saying that he was young, why he was arrested, and did not apologize to the victim’s family until he went to court. .

As a mother, education requires education, especially when doing wrong things, at least tell your children that if you do something wrong, you will have to bear the corresponding consequences. If you hurt others, you have to pay the price. Only in this way can children be established. Correct sense of the rules.

Once the habit has been developed and the punishment is difficult to change, the probability of re-offending is extremely high.

That is to say, in order to make juvenile delinquents embark on the correct life path, in addition to the social level, family education is also needed.

As a TV series, “Juvenile Justice” may have its one-sidedness, but it is good enough to bring this socially sensitive topic to the table and cause some thinking from the perspective of family education.

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