General Article From playground to prison

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Background

  • The minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales was set at ten in the 1963 Children and Young Person’s Act. Previously the 1908 Children Act set it at seven.
  • In the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, Labour abolished the p...

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