TY - CHAP
T1 - RETHINKING THE AGE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
AU - Crofts, Thomas
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The varied understandings of, and approaches to, criminal responsibility in relation to children are explored in this chapter. It finds that these differences are often not clearly acknowledged or articulated but they fundamentally shape debates about the minimum age level of criminal responsibility. In unravelling these differences, this chapter allows for a better understanding of the implications that these conceptualisations have for arguments about how the law does and should deal with children who transgress the criminal law. The chapter concludes by making recommendations about how the law ought to address the criminal responsibility of children. © 2024 Informa UK Limited
AB - The varied understandings of, and approaches to, criminal responsibility in relation to children are explored in this chapter. It finds that these differences are often not clearly acknowledged or articulated but they fundamentally shape debates about the minimum age level of criminal responsibility. In unravelling these differences, this chapter allows for a better understanding of the implications that these conceptualisations have for arguments about how the law does and should deal with children who transgress the criminal law. The chapter concludes by making recommendations about how the law ought to address the criminal responsibility of children. © 2024 Informa UK Limited
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003297260-30
DO - 10.4324/9781003297260-30
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 9781032284439
SN - 9781032285313
T3 - Routledge International Handbooks
SP - 360
EP - 375
BT - The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Responsibility
A2 - Crofts, Thomas
A2 - Kennefick, Louise
A2 - Loughnan, Arlie
PB - Routledge
ER -