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“Responsible Child”, the ripped-from-the-headlines story of a 12-year-old boy who stands trial for murder, is top of the Netflix film charts. The TV movie, which first aired on the BBC in 2019, ...

Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs to carry out ...

SARA MARIA AND ED. THE HOUSE AND SENATE EACH HAVE BILLS THAT WOULD ALLOW YOUNG ADULTS TO REMAIN IN THE JUVENILE SYSTEM, NOT PROSECUTE THEM AS AN ADULT FOR CERTAIN CRIMES. AND TODAY, THAT EFFORT GOT ...

Argentina’s Senate passed a law on Friday lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14, a flagship “tough on crime” initiative backed by President Javier Milei. The bill cleared ...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A proposal to lower the age a person could be charged as an adult is moving forward at the state house. Today, Senate Bill 3 passed a Senate Judicial Committee. This would ...

As the CEO of Texas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and the former executive director of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, I have spent my career advocating for children who need the ...

“In some counties they have a good set of services in place for young people, so [raising the age] would mean an expansion of those, but there are also counties where there’s almost nothing in place,” ...

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