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    Crim Law Assignment

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    Children should not face criminal charges until age 15 for several reasons: 1) Children's minds are still developing and they are easily influenced by their environments, so punishing them criminally at a young age is misguided. 2) It is inconsistent to say children are too young for some responsibilities but not for criminal charges. 3) Existing juvenile justice laws focus on rehabilitation over punishment and are not being properly implemented due to lack of youth facilities, so lowering the criminal age risks exposing more children to harm.

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    Children should not face criminal charges until age 15 for several reasons: 1) Children's minds are still developing and they are easily influenced by their environments, so punishing them criminally at a young age is misguided. 2) It is inconsistent to say children are too young for some responsibilities but not for criminal charges. 3) Existing juvenile justice laws focus on rehabilitation over punishment and are not being properly implemented due to lack of youth facilities, so lowering the criminal age risks exposing more children to harm.

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    Children should not face criminal charges until age 15 for several reasons: 1) Children's minds are still developing and they are easily influenced by their environments, so punishing them criminally at a young age is misguided. 2) It is inconsistent to say children are too young for some responsibilities but not for criminal charges. 3) Existing juvenile justice laws focus on rehabilitation over punishment and are not being properly implemented due to lack of youth facilities, so lowering the criminal age risks exposing more children to harm.

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    Children should not face criminal charges until age 15 for several reasons: 1) Children's minds are still developing and they are easily influenced by their environments, so punishing them criminally at a young age is misguided. 2) It is inconsistent to say children are too young for some responsibilities but not for criminal charges. 3) Existing juvenile justice laws focus on rehabilitation over punishment and are not being properly implemented due to lack of youth facilities, so lowering the criminal age risks exposing more children to harm.

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    Children are not Criminals

    It is the responsibility of everyone to be a role model to children for their


    minds can be easily corrupted and their environment plays an important role
    in the development of child’s mentality. Hence, lowering the age of criminal
    responsibility from 15 to 9 can affect the role of children in the society and can
    bring much more menace to them. More so, children are entitled to special care
    and support as matter of their right, and that no child deserves such repulsive
    and abominable treatment from anyone and that includes being a subject to
    criminal liabilities.
    Three points can be drawn as a point of argument as to why I am against
    the lowering of criminal responsibility. First, children are not little adults. They
    do not think same way as adult does. They may or may not have discernment
    of committing a crime but their psychological capacity is still underdeveloped,
    and the act might be just an influence of his/her environment or he/she might
    be just an instrument of the crime. Also, it is absurd to say that children are
    too young to vote, to get married, to be part of a contract, and to get a driver
    license but are not too young to be charged for a crime.
    Second point, the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act or the RA 9344 needs
    not to be amended, it needs to be implemented. It is for a fact that this law
    provides a distinct justice system for children where it provides intervention
    programs like counseling, or confining children engaged with serious crimes in
    the youth care facilities like the Bahay Pag-asa. However, this law is often not
    implemented and is not functional because of lack of youth care facilities to
    cater the needs of the growing population of children in conflict with the law.
    And so, if children under 9 years old can now be criminally responsible then
    there is a possibility that the government will accommodate more children, and
    the ratio of children that will undergo rehabilitation may not be proportionate
    to the number of youth care facilities that we have. And because of that,
    children will most likely end up in jails where they may be imperilled to some
    sort ferocity and exploitation.

    Again, children are not criminals.

    Roland Mark Manaois Gatchalian


    AB Political Science IV

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