Responses to Serious Offending by Children: Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally.

Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. Anchored in a theoretical framework based on the human rights of children, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it considers the relationship between scientific evidence (such as brain development) and the human rights framework, before g...