... the child has completed a given age. Children who have not completed 12 years of age have no criminal responsibility. Children who have completed 12 years of age but have not completed 15 years of age are assessed according to their capacity to understand the legal meaning and consequences of the act...

...Matthew Charles Thorne; Nick de Viggiani; Emma Plugge Purpose Globally millions of children have a parent who is imprisoned. Research suggests that this has an adverse impact on the child and imprisonment of a parent is considered to be an adverse childhood experience (ACE). Parental incarceration...