Children S Rights And The Minimum Age Of Criminal Responsibility

Author : Don Cipriani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317167594

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Children’s Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility by Don Cipriani Pdf

Children of almost any age can break the law, but at what age should children first face the possibility of criminal responsibility for their alleged crimes? This work is the first global analysis of national minimum ages of criminal responsibility (MACRs), the international legal obligations that surround them, and the principal considerations for establishing and implementing respective age limits. Taking an international children's rights approach, with a rich theoretical framework and the vitality of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this work maintains a critical perspective, such as in challenging the assumptions of many children's rights scholars and advocates. Compiling the age limits and statutory sources for all countries, this book explains the broad historical origins behind most of them, identifying the recurring practical challenges that affect every country and providing the first comprehensive evidence that a general principle of international law requires all nations, regardless of their treaty ratifications, to establish respective minimum age limits.

Author : Don Cipriani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317167587

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Children’s Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility by Don Cipriani Pdf

Children of almost any age can break the law, but at what age should children first face the possibility of criminal responsibility for their alleged crimes? This work is the first global analysis of national minimum ages of criminal responsibility (MACRs), the international legal obligations that surround them, and the principal considerations for establishing and implementing respective age limits. Taking an international children's rights approach, with a rich theoretical framework and the vitality of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this work maintains a critical perspective, such as in challenging the assumptions of many children's rights scholars and advocates. Compiling the age limits and statutory sources for all countries, this book explains the broad historical origins behind most of them, identifying the recurring practical challenges that affect every country and providing the first comprehensive evidence that a general principle of international law requires all nations, regardless of their treaty ratifications, to establish respective minimum age limits.

Author : Don Cipriani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Age (Law)
ISBN : 1315571587

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Children's Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility by Don Cipriani Pdf

Author : Ned Lecic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Children
ISBN : 1771992379

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The Law Is (Not) for Kids by Ned Lecic Pdf

"In this practical guide to the law for Canada's young people, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth. The authors address questions about how rights and laws affect the lives of young people at home, at school, at work, and in their relationships and draw attention to the many ways in which a person's life can intersect with the law. Deliberately refraining from moralizing, the authors instead advocate for children and their rights and provide examples of how young people can get them enforced. In addition to being critical information for youth about citizenship, The Law is (Not) for Kids is a valuable resource for teachers, counsellors, lawyers, and all those who support youth in their encounters with the law."--

Author : Geraldine van Bueren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047417453

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A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 40: Child Criminal Justice by Geraldine van Bueren Pdf

This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 40 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Author : Gideon Yaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198803324

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The Age of Culpability by Gideon Yaffe Pdf

Gideon Yaffe presents a theory of criminal responsibility according to which child criminals deserve leniency not because of their psychological, behavioural, or neural immaturity but because they are denied the vote. He argues that full shares of criminal punishment are deserved only by those who have a full share of say over the law.

Author : Geraldine Van Bueren,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9287162697

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Child Rights in Europe by Geraldine Van Bueren,Council of Europe Pdf

This volume analyzes the effectiveness of the judicial protection of children's rights within the Council of Europe. The extent to which common standards have been developed by the courts in implementing children's rights is examined both from the perspective of the European Court of Human Rights and the judgments of the highest national courts within the member states of the Council of Europe. Further analysis is made of the Council of Europe's Social Charter and the reports of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.--Publisher's description

Author : Jane Fortin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139479981

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Children's Rights and the Developing Law by Jane Fortin Pdf

Following the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998, awareness has increased that we live in a rights-based culture and that children constitute an important group of rights holders. Now in its third edition, Children's Rights and the Developing Law explores the way developing law and policies in England and Wales are simultaneously promoting and undermining the rights of children. It reflects on how far these developments take account of children's interests, using current research on children's needs as a template against which to assess their effectiveness and considering a broad range of topics, including medical law, education and youth justice. A critical approach is maintained throughout, particularly when assessing the extent to which the concept of children's rights is being acknowledged by the courts and policy makers and the degree to which the UK fulfils its obligations under, for example, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Author : Cynthia Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004531215

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The Jurisprudence on the Rights of the Child by Cynthia Cohen Pdf

Author : Jonathan Todres,Shani M. King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190097622

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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law by Jonathan Todres,Shani M. King Pdf

Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.

Author : Wouter Vandenhole,Ellen Desmet,Didier Reynaert,Sara Lembrechts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317669722

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Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies by Wouter Vandenhole,Ellen Desmet,Didier Reynaert,Sara Lembrechts Pdf

Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children’s rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies. This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people in the theory and practice of children’s rights. The volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to children’s rights, as well as key thematic issues in children’s rights at the intersection of global and local concerns. The main approaches and topics within the volume are: • Law, social work, and the sociology of childhood and anthropology • Geography, childhood studies, gender studies and citizenship studies • Participation, education and health • Juvenile justice and alternative care • Violence against children and female genital mutilation • Child labour, working children and child poverty • Migration, indigenous children and resource exploitation The specially commissioned chapters have been written by renowned scholars and researchers and come together to provide a critical and invaluable guide to the challenges and dilemmas currently facing children’s rights.

Author : Leonie Steinl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462652019

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Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace by Leonie Steinl Pdf

This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless, the international discourse on child soldiers often tends to ignore the latter dimension of children’s involvement in armed conflict and instead focuses exclusively on their role as victims. While it might seem as though the discourse is therefore beneficial for child soldiers as it protects them from blame and responsibility, it is important to realize that the so-called passive victim narrative entails various adverse consequences, which can hinder the successful reintegration of child soldiers into their families, communities and societies. This book aims to address this dilemma. First, the available options for dealing with child soldiers’ participation in crimes under international law, such as transitional justice and criminal justice, and their shortcomings are analyzed in depth. Subsequently a new approach is developed towards achieving accountability in a child-adequate way, which is called restorative transitional justice. This book is in the first place aimed at researchers with an interest in child soldiers, children and armed conflict, as well as international criminal law, transitional justice, juvenile justice, restorative justice, children’s rights, and international human rights law. Secondly, professionals working on issues of transitional justice, juvenile justice, international criminal law, children’s rights, and the reintegration of child soldiers will also find the subject matter of great relevance to their practice. Dr. Leonie Steinl, LL.M. (Columbia) is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.

Author : Ziba Vaghri,Jean Zermatten,Gerison Lansdown,Roberta Ruggiero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030846473

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Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by Ziba Vaghri,Jean Zermatten,Gerison Lansdown,Roberta Ruggiero Pdf

This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and identify the main features that need to be taken into consideration when assessing a State’s progressive implementation of the UNCRC. This analysis considers which aspects of a given right are most important to track, in order to monitor States' implementation of any given right, and whether there is any resultant change in the lives of children. This approach transforms the narrative of legal international standards concerning a given right into a set of characteristics that ensure no aspect of said right is overlooked. The book develops a clear and comprehensive understanding of the UNCRC that can be used as an introduction to the rights and principles it contains, and to identify directions for future policy and strategy development in compliance with the UNCRC. As such, it offers an invaluable reference guide for researchers and students in the field of childhood and children’s rights studies, as well as a wide range of professionals and organisations concerned with the subject.

Author : Wayne Thomas Crofts
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015055202660

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The Criminal Responsibility of Children and Young Persons by Wayne Thomas Crofts Pdf

By noting the strikingly different ages at which a child can be deemed criminally responsible in the English and German legal systems, Thomas Crofts explores the notion of doli incapax, that is the incapability of forming a guilty mind.

Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319050713

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Child Law by Laura Westra Pdf

Child Law starts with the question “Who is the Child?” In direct contrast to the CRC, which calls for putting the interests of the child first in all policies dealing with children, it appears that the interests of others are the major consideration de facto. In law, children’s right to protection is severely limited by the presence of a maximum age limit, with no consideration of the starting point: current and ongoing scientific research has demonstrated the effects of this non-consideration in a number of abnormalities and diseases, not only in children, but in adults and the elderly. The WHO has published a number of studies to that effect and the 2012 Report on Endocrine Disruptors more than confirms this claim. This and other scientific insights that have largely been ignored show the flaws and inadequacies of the legal regimes intended to protect children, in a number of areas, from the basic public health to the right to normal development; child labor law conventions; in conflict situations; as a result of climate and other events; children as illegal migrants and as inmates in prison camps.