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RE: Do you think That It Is Better To Lower The Age Of Criminal Responsibility From 15 to 12 Years Old?
No, but I am not sure how much respect 12 year old kids are offered in your country.
In USA they are not allowed to work. I had a hard time (and still do) finding anyonr willing to hire me for a job until I looked much older. Could not drink, smoke, vote, or be allowed do to anything on my own until I was 18 or 21. At 15 kids are usually still driven by hormones and puberty, and they need a few years to learn how to develop stronger self control when their emotions become more than they are used to.
It used to be the role of parents to accept responsibility for their offspring, but now that is considered too conservative by many. Without elders to offer guidance for the young, they become wild, like Lord of the Flies.
This new law for minors in our country got raised in the Senate because of the number of crimes involving children/minors and it ranges from theft to even murder or rape.
It is different now, children are not the same like in previous decades, so to protect both the public and the minors themselves the age for criminal liability was put lower to 12 so that once they would commit crimes they will be caught and put into reform institutions. That I think is good than just letting them go again out and commit crimes again. @creativetruth
Are they mostly orphans? Why aren't they rounded up and put in an orphanage or given to foster parents? In my country children are usually taken away from parents by Child Protective Services if the parents are overly negligent with their children. I don't understand the situation over there very well.
I soon have to learn if the parents of these minors who are in conflict with the law will also be held liable but surely enough if a minor was caught doing criminality they will get institutionalized to protect them and the public. @creativetruth