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Experts back call to raise age of criminal responsibility to 16

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A criminal law expert has praised the an investigation into Australia raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility for children.

 

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Age of criminal responsibility may be raised to 16 | Sky News AustraliaAttorney General Christian Porter has signed off on 12 month investigation into whether the age of criminal responsibility should be raised from 10 to 16.\n\nThe move would mean children under that age could not be prosecuted for crimes because they are not considered to have a fully developed understanding of right and wrong. \n\nHowever, there are concerns teenage criminals would be given a free pass to break the law.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n cporterwa Bad idea, all criminals will just recruit 15 year olds to do there dirty work. cporterwa Noooo! It's hard enough to punish 10-16yo for committing adult crimes! This is just open season on their recruitment into crime gangs 😠👎 skynews
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