Childhood and crime /

Examines how the criminal law and the criminal justice system treat children who commit serious crimes. How does the legal system accommodate an individual who is simultaneously a child and a criminal? Claire McDiarmid examines a number of serious cases from legal, philosophical and sociological per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDiarmid, Claire (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dundee : Dundee University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Juvenile justice, Administration of > Scotland.
Juvenile corrections > Scotland.
Juvenile delinquency > Scotland.
Services correctionnels pour mineurs > Écosse.
Délinquance juvénile > Écosse.
Juvenile corrections
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile justice, Administration of
Scotland
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; Foreword; Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; Table of Statutory Instruments; Table of International Instruments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Context of the Bulger Case and Its Ripple Effect; 3. Children and the Mental Element in Criminal Law; 4. The Recognition of the Child's Criminal Capacity in Law: Two Examples; 5. The Treatment of Children in Scots Law Historically; 6. The Modern Law; 7. Welfare and the Children's Hearings System: 'Justice' within Welfare; 8. Concluding Thoughts; Bibliography; Index.

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