A Ph.D. student in criminal law at Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract
Removing the rejectable evidence of mental immaturity of children between 10 to 14 years old, England legislature gave them full criminal liability in 1998. Although at first it may appear against the rights of children, judgment about it requires considering other simultaneous developments took place. The legislature developed deep changes related to the kind of social reactions towards children crimes. The axis of these changes was reforming and training measures and immature prevention of the crime. Hence instead of leaving the children to the age of criminal liability and practicing traditional reactions to them, England legislature interferes in the process of their growth and sociability and tries to prevent growth of criminal behaviors. Instruments of enforcement of this approach are recent court orders.
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