Childhood and Crime / / Claire McDiarmid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: McDiarmid, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.) :; 4 B/W tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; TABLE OF CASES --; TABLE OF STATUTES --; TABLE OF STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS --; TABLE OF INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS --; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 2 THE CONTEXT OF THE BULGER CASE AND ITS RIPPLE EFFECT --; CHAPTER 3 CHILDREN AND THE MENTAL ELEMENT IN CRIMINAL LAW --; CHAPTER 4 THE RECOGNITION OF THE CHILD’S CRIMINAL CAPACITY IN LAW:TWO EXAMPLES --; CHAPTER 5 THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN SCOTS CRIMINAL LAW HISTORICALLY --; CHAPTER 6 THE MODERN LAW --; CHAPTER 7 WELFARE AND THE CHILDREN’S HEARINGS SYSTEM:“JUSTICE” WITHIN WELFARE --; CHAPTER 8 CONCLUDING THOUGHTS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748699469; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748699469?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Claire McDiarmid.

Examines how the criminal law and the criminal justice system treat children who commit serious crimesHow does the legal system accommodate an individual who is simultaneously a child and a criminal? Claire McDiarmid examines a number of serious cases from legal, philosophical and sociological perspectives, including the murder of James Bulger in 1993. She argues that a thorough investigation of the child’s criminal capacity, drawing on developmental psychology, is necessary to provide a fair and rational basis for decisions on responsibility and disposal in respect of such children. Childhood and Crime presents a model for achieving this.McDiarmid also examines the existing response of the Scottish legal system to such children, both in the courts and through the children’s hearings system, in its search for a fair and compassionate approach that still takes account of the public interest and the need for public confidence in the criminal justice system.