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Ten-year-olds do not belong in detention. Why Australia must raise the age of criminal responsibility

  • Written by Chris Cunneen, Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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In Australia, children as young as ten can be held criminally responsible for their actions.

This means they can be arrested by police, remanded in custody, convicted by the courts and imprisoned.


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