Young Offenders & the Legal System (split from Yay, GUNS!)

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19 hours ago, zapatos said:

Does their inability to judge mean they don't need anything more than understanding and nurture? Or does it mean the crime was not heinous?

 

I'm saying their inability to judge is often because of their nurture, due to the lack of a positive upbringing, which we need to understand before we decide the heinousness of their actions because they may not be capable of judging for themselves. 

19 hours ago, Raider5678 said:

If everyone could point to themselves, say it was due to lack of nurture and bad upbringing, and we accepted it, we could never convict anyone of anything.

 

We are talking about convicting children here, within that context this is nonsense.

Can we try and stay on topic please folks, it's not about crimes on children it's about crimes of children.