“No civilized society regards children as accountable for their actions to the same extent as adults”. Protecting children and young people against the full rigour of criminal law is indeed beyond argument. One question that immediately comes to mind is whether a young offender is to be considered as a child or not, the latter being defined by the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 in its Article 1 as: “a human being below the age of eighteen”. It states more precisely that: “For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier”. This definition reflects the idea that emerged in Franc...
In England and Wales the age of criminal responsibility is set at 10 years. The current law therefor...
‘Children are travellers newly arrived in a strange country, of which they know nothing’ This articl...
This volume identifies major international shifts in juvenile justice policy and practice. There is ...
In France, children can live in prison with their detained mothers until they reach eighteen months ...
En France, en prison, les enfants de femmes incarcérées peuvent séjourner auprès d'elles durant leur...
«The Birth of the Juvenile Courts in Angers and Montreal (1912-1940)». At the beginning of the XXth ...
With the alarming rise of juvenile crime and violence during the past decade, policymakers across th...
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (see CRC, 2007) monitors the extent to which youth justice ...
In 2010 two boys, aged 10 years, were convicted of the attempted rape of an eight year old girl in E...
The question of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is one which regular...
The term ‘child-friendly justice’ has its origins in international human rights legal frameworks, sp...
Currently in England and Wales the law considers that all children below 10 years of age are exempt ...
The setting of an 'age of criminal responsibility' by States across the international spectrum is a ...
In Scotland, the age of criminal responsibility is eight though children cannot be prosecuted until ...
This book will consider the question of when is it fair to hold young people criminally responsible ...
In England and Wales the age of criminal responsibility is set at 10 years. The current law therefor...
‘Children are travellers newly arrived in a strange country, of which they know nothing’ This articl...
This volume identifies major international shifts in juvenile justice policy and practice. There is ...
In France, children can live in prison with their detained mothers until they reach eighteen months ...
En France, en prison, les enfants de femmes incarcérées peuvent séjourner auprès d'elles durant leur...
«The Birth of the Juvenile Courts in Angers and Montreal (1912-1940)». At the beginning of the XXth ...
With the alarming rise of juvenile crime and violence during the past decade, policymakers across th...
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (see CRC, 2007) monitors the extent to which youth justice ...
In 2010 two boys, aged 10 years, were convicted of the attempted rape of an eight year old girl in E...
The question of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is one which regular...
The term ‘child-friendly justice’ has its origins in international human rights legal frameworks, sp...
Currently in England and Wales the law considers that all children below 10 years of age are exempt ...
The setting of an 'age of criminal responsibility' by States across the international spectrum is a ...
In Scotland, the age of criminal responsibility is eight though children cannot be prosecuted until ...
This book will consider the question of when is it fair to hold young people criminally responsible ...
In England and Wales the age of criminal responsibility is set at 10 years. The current law therefor...
‘Children are travellers newly arrived in a strange country, of which they know nothing’ This articl...
This volume identifies major international shifts in juvenile justice policy and practice. There is ...