Do juveniles sufficiently understand Miranda warning and be able to waive their constitutional rights to remain silent or speak with an attorney?

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Cassidy Riggs

4 January, 04:33

Do juveniles sufficiently understand Miranda warning and be able to waive their constitutional rights to remain silent or speak with an attorney?

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Draven Hopkins · Answer 1

According to data, it is found that juveniles do not sufficiently understand the Miranda warning and find it difficult to exercise their right of remaining silent.

Explanation:

Juveniles are far more sensitive than adults are. This is the reason what may not mean coercion in the case of an adult may be considered as coercion in the case having a juvenile involved. According to the data obtained from a number of juvenile justice cases, it is clear that the juveniles do not choose to make use of their right to remain silent.

This may be either because they don't properly come to terms with what Miranda rights actually are or they are too vulnerable to the interrogation and can't resist speaking out of fear.