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Parental Responsibility for Criminality

Submitted on Tuesday 9th August 2011

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Parental Responsibility for Criminality

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A law to make parents and or guardians criminally responsible for crimes committed by their children between the ages of eight and eighteen. The police should be empowered to charge the responsible parent or guardian with the same offence as their children. The penalties the courts could impose should be the same as if the parents or guardian committed the offence themselves


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