Children and the Nature of Criminal Responsibility
by
Gideon Yaffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Why be lenient towards children who commit crimes? Reflection on the grounds for such leniency is the entry point into the development, in this book, of a theory of the nature of criminal responsibility and desert of punishment for crime. Gideon Yaffe argues that child criminals are owed lesser punishments...