TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDiarmid,Claire
TI  - Childhood and crime
SN  - 9781474406147
AV  - HV9147.A5 
U1  - 364.3609411 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Dundee
PB  - Dundee University Press
KW  - Children
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Juvenile justice, Administration of
KW  - Criminal law
KW  - Crime
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - True Crime
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - This is a treatise on youth justice which examines the treatment, by the criminal law and the criminal justice system, of children who commit serious crimes. It draws on legal, philosophical and childhood studies literature to look at the interaction between law and childhood and considers a number of cases, noting the difficulties for legal systems, of accommodating individuals who are, simultaneously, both 'child' and 'criminal'. The law's impulse is to protect children and to call to account and punish offenders - aims which sometimes conflict
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860127.001.0001
ER  -