Arguments for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility / Professor Chris Cuneen
- Bib ID:
- 8661909
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- Book
- Author:
- Cunneen, Chris, author
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- [Broadway, NSW] : Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology, Sydney & UNSW, 2020
- 1 online resource (34 pages)
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- 9780648798101
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- Summary:
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"The age of criminal responsibility is the primary legal barrier to criminalisation and thus entry into the criminal justice system. This paper1 provides arguments for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR). Nationally the minimum age is 10 years old. Some Australian states set the MACR at 10 years in the mid-to late1970s (Queensland (1976), NSW (1977) and South Australia (1979)). However, only since the early 2000s has there been a uniform approach to the MACR in all Australian jurisdictions (Cunneen et al 2015: 250). The paper provides a number of reasons for raising the age: international comparisons; the protection of children's rights; the limited ability of the common law doctrine of doli incapax to protect young children; child developmental arguments and issues of mental illness and cognitive impairment; the over-representation of children in out-of-home-care (OOHC) among young children in the juvenile justice system, criminological arguments relating to the failure of an approach that relies on criminalisation and imprisonment; and the views of juvenile justice practitioners." -- Introduction (Page 4).
- Notes:
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- "Comparative Youth Penality Project Research Report"
- "The research was originally undertaken as part of the Comparative Youth Penality Project at UNSW and James Cook University. It was funded by the Australian Research Council (DP120100380)."
- References: Pages 27-34.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system -- Australia -- Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Criminal justice system
- Crime prevention -- Australia
- Juvenile courts -- Australia
- Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- Australia
- Juvenile deliquency -- Australia -- Prevention
- Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Australia
- Youth -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system
- Crime prevention
- Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation
- Juvenile justice, Administration of
- Youth -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Australia
- Northern Territory
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- Electronic books
- Other authors/contributors:
- University of Technology, Sydney. Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, issuing body
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- Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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