Today's Date:
December 23, 2024
Parent Responsibility for Children’s Crimes : A Legal and Ethical Discussion
As violence by juveniles has increased in recent years, the debate about parents’ legal responsibility for children’s behavior has escalated in many social research and public circles as well as within institutions, including the vast childrens’ services complex. Advocates of →
Implications for the Sentencing Phase of Juveniles Tried as Adults
In terms of sentencing, despite the articulated preference for rehabilitation-oriented alternatives, the revisions to the Children’s Code that occurred in 1996 set clear guidelines for sentencing adolescents who were convicted as adults for their crimes (Jarrett & Peters 1). In →
