A new bill keeping 10 year olds out of jail is a good start, but it needs to go further
- Written by Thomas Crofts, Professor, School of Law and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong
Children as young as ten may well lack the capacity to understand the wrongfulness of their behaviour.ShutterstockA nine-year-old boy was recently charged with arson and five counts of murder in Illinois, US. In court, the boy didn’t even understand what “arson” meant.
In Australia, a nine year old cannot be prosecuted and found...
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