Kids that commit crime - age of criminal responsibility
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Kids under ten get off with a slap on the writsts
Personally I wouldn't want to see the current age of criminal responsibility reduced any further in England, but I think that it certainly should not be raised to fourteen.
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I read in the news today that 3,000 crimes were committed in England and Wales last year by children. As they are below the age of criminal responsibility, the little thugs can't be held accountable and basically get off.
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| 27-2-2008 | There should be no minimum age for criminality. These yobs know when they are doing wrong, otherwise why would they do it - they are attention-seeking cowards. Ignorance of the Law is not accepted as an excuse for adults so why should it be different for children? We have created an untouchable sect...more | Deliverance |
| 11-12-2007 | When children at any age do something they shouldn't.
How do we know if they know what they are doing is wrong
Simple ... They run away | Michael Notts |
| 21-10-2007 | I bet all the posters who would like to dispense with the "Age of Criminal Responsibility" would like to see little Johnny, aged 9, transported for life to the colonies for stealing a loaf of bread, or hung for stealing a sheep. In my view those posters have BlueTongue and should be put ou...more | New Age |
| 08-10-2007 | The concept of an 'age of criminal responsibility' should be done away with. If it's apparent that a minor has commited a criminal act and was fully aware that he/she was commiting such an act at the time, then they should be prosecuted. There is a long delay in acknowledging that childr...more | Had Enuff |
| 22-9-2007 | Kids behaving this way see life in a different way to many others. They have a particularly difficult mental struggle with the idea of seeing the near or long term future with optimism. They can be distracted by everyday occurrences which will upset them, but which for others may not even register. ...more | Chris |
| 18-9-2007 | Hey - in the 60s we had no heating either. (god am I THAT old?) I can well remember how beautiful the fern frost patterns were on the INSIDES of the bedroom windows in the morning. And heating up pennies to hold against the glass and make spy holes to peep out of. I hadn't a clue at the time, th...more | serenity |
| 11-9-2007 | All the nouveau riche should see/read
Monty Python's We Were So Poor Script
http://www.cmoore.com/funstuff/humor/mp.script.weweresopoor.php
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
...more | Pythonesque |
| 11-9-2007 | It was only one large lump, sticking through the wire netting. And I paid for it by tearing my trousers when (at the age of 8) I climbed over the wall to reach it - a catastrophe when there's no money in the house.
Faced with a choice of becoming Montgomery Clift in "I Confess" or ...more | Oracle2007 |
| 10-9-2007 | It is extremely enlightening that our resident poorman made good, Oracle2007 had to in 1947
"steal coal from the railway yard."
a crook if there ever was one.
I wonder whether our friend ever saw the Film, "Dead End" where two kids from the underclass were chased by the ...more | Film Buff |
| 10-9-2007 | "Wrong on all points, "Rich Are Scum".
I was born in the Absolute Poverty I described, so I'm entitled to give my views on it. I grew up in a grimmer London than anything seen in "today's run down cities". And I wouldn't exactly say we lived in an ivory tow...more | Oracle2007 |
| 10-9-2007 | I live in an inner city area.
I work in an inner city area.
I hate it.
Ive had to save money so I can move to a nicer area and have nearly completed this aim.
I had no help or handouts, just some ambition.
I agree that the Super Rich may need to be taxed more but I think a lot of these gripes o...more | Angrydadcalledray |
| 09-9-2007 | if you come from a poor background, you now have less chance of escaping it than you did a generation ago - an appalling legacy of the 'greed is good' 1980s."
Today a significant group of super-rich float free from the rest of society, and think that tax is for the little people.
...more | Tax the rich |
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