Children's rights and the minimum age of criminal responsibility
Subtitle: a global perspective
By: by Don Cipriani.
Series: Advances in criminology
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780754677307; 9780754694472
Subjects: Criminal liability; Capacity and disability; Age (Law); Children -- Legal status, laws, etc; Children (International law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shifting perspectives on children, shifting rights and criminal responsibility in juvenile justice; title: Children's rights: mediation of welfare-justice tensions; title: MACRs and states' obligations under regional and international law instruments; title: Historical influences on MACRs; title: Current MACRs worldwide and modern trends; title: Practical implications and challenges of MACR implementation; title: Making MACRs work for children's rights.