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• 1.   The Age of Criminal Responsibility: "The Frontier between Care and Justice"

  This article addresses the potential conflict between the concept of the welfare of children inherent in the family care system and that of responsibility inherent in the criminal justice system.

  

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  This is an extract from a speech given by Mr Justice Gillen to a conference in Belfast organised by Children Law UK in January 2006. It addresses the potential conflict between the concept of the welfare of children inherent in the family care system and that of responsibility inherent in the criminal justice system. It questions whether the abolition of doli incapax and the age of more...

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  Northern Ireland

  Child Care in Practice, Vol: 12 Page: 129-139 2006
  John Gillen

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