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Apprentice Geriatric
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Re: Should kids go to jail?
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Originally Posted by panther
Under-14s should not be held responsible for their actions and should never be locked up in children’s homes or young offender institutions, according to The Prison Reform Trust.
Their report calls for the criminal responsibility age to be raised from 10 to 14, claiming incarceration doesnt deter under-14s, since 75% of them reoffend within a year of release. Do you agree?
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Yet another crackpot suggestion by an organisation that should know better.
If anything the age should be lowered to 8 years of age.
Instead of coming up with silly ideas and trying to hide behind “incarceration doesn’t deter under-14s, since 75% of them re-offend within a year of release”, they should be trying to figure out WHY THEY RE-OFFEND and put in place a scheme to put them back on the straight and narrow. |