Abstract Criminal responsibility refers to a person’s ability understand his action, behavior at the time crime is committed, what person thinking when he commits or expected result committed. Crime defined in terms of an act omission (actus reus) and mental state (mens rea). In this paper, presented general concept irresponsibility essentially reduced as reason be exempted from punishment prov...

Few studies have longitudinally investigated the criminal profiles of violent juvenile sex and violent juvenile non-sex offenders. To make up for this lack, this study used police records of juveniles to determine the nature of the criminal profiles of violent sex offenders (n = 226) and violent non-sex offenders (n = 4,130). All offenders committed their first offense in 1996 and were followed...

The optimal detention policy for juvenile delinquents presents a challenge to the criminal justice system, which must balance the well-being of the community with that of the juvenile. Detention is often used as a way to protect the community by preventing a juvenile from committing more crimes while awaiting adjudication of the juvenile’s current criminal offense. Detention may however adverse...

OBJECTIVE All 50 states and the District of Columbia have legal mechanisms to try juveniles as adults in criminal court. This study examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among youths transferred to adult criminal court and youths processed in the juvenile court. METHODS Participants were a stratified random sample of 1,829 youths, ten to 18 years of age, who were arrested and detai...