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Children and criminal responsibility - at what age should our children lose their innocence and take on adult responsibility? Compare and contrast the British and Norwegian standpoint on this issue.
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Children and criminal responsibility - at what age should our children lose their innocence and take on adult responsibility? Compare and contrast the British and Norwegian standpoint on this issue. In 1993 the murder of two-year-old James Bulger caused a national outrage. The media frenzy was caused not so much by the death of a small child, but by the age of his killers. Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were just ten years old when they committed the murder. The case caused a moral panic. There was endless speculation about the nature of childhood, what could have caused such cruelty in children. The killers were subject to intense speculation. Were they inherently evil? Did they truly know what they were doing? Many questions were also raised about how society should react to them, could or even should they ever be forgiven or rehabilitated. A year later there was a similar case...
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