In our justice system, a 10-year-old child is considered as indistinguishable from an adult when being charged and tried for ...

A 13-year-old girl accused of committing an assault just a few months before laws were passed to eventually increase ...

MSPs have debated a bill which raises the age of criminal responsibility from eight to 12 for the first time. What's the bill all about, and what will actually change? The age of criminal ...

MSPs have backed a bill that will increase the age of criminal responsibility to 12. Currently children as young as eight can have a criminal record in Scotland, albeit via the decisions of ...

19, No. 1, Fall 2018 Homicides and the Age of Criminal Respon... Homicides and the Age of Criminal Responsibility: A Density Discontinuity Approach This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer ...

At 12, an Australian child “cannot lawfully sign onto Facebook but can be questioned, arrested, detained, and imprisoned.” ...

A Chinese court has sentenced a teenage boy to life in prison for murdering his classmate, capping a case that sparked a ...

the number of teenagers involved in violent gun crimes in the city tripled after the state legislature in 2017 hiked the age of criminal responsibility to 18. “The Raise the Age law made it ...

In 2021, China lowered its age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12 for "special cases" such as inflicting death by "extremely cruel means." The Hebei case was thought to be one of the first ...

International advocacy group Human Rights Watch says treatment of children in the criminal justice system went from bad to ...