We recently attended the European Society of Criminology Conference at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where there was a lot of interest in Don Cipriani’s book Children’s Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
This brilliantly sparkling and inclusive meditation on the pivotal but obscure question of when children become criminally culpable is required reading for all who care for child justice. Cipriani insists on the bewildering complexity of setting a minimum age of criminal responsibility which subjects children above it to penal procedures and punishment, while rooting his analysis in the practical challenges of lurching toward a coherent system of child rights.
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University School of Law, USA Continue reading ‘Children’s Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility’
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