The Age of Criminal Responsibility

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Across
  1. 5. The majority of children's courts aim to enhance the desirability of _______.
  2. 9. _______ groups had a reduced sense of wrong in criminal acts.
  3. 10. Juvenile _______ allow for adolescents to be transferred to adult courts.
  4. 12. Continued child delinquent behaviours may result in a high risk of depression and _______.
  5. 14. Adolescents are vulnerable to poor decision making due to _______ pressure.
  6. 15. The responsibility of young children is still developing as a product of their _______.
Down
  1. 1. Moral reasoning is a _______ process.
  2. 2. The _______ lobe is the last part of the brain to develop.
  3. 3. ‘The age of criminal responsibility must be set so as properly to take in to account both the underlying complexity and the acquisition of _______.
  4. 4. Empathy is feeling an emotion _______.
  5. 6. The Oxford English Dictionary defines responsibility as ‘the opportunity or ability to act independently and make decisions without _______.
  6. 7. Carefully controlled _______ studies which follow children in to adolescence and adulthood are lacking.
  7. 8. In step 1 of any of the developmental pathways in Loeber et al.'s (1993) study, the average age of onset of minor problem behaviour was _______ years.
  8. 11. Moral development occurs in the first _______ years of life.
  9. 13. Even toddlers as young as thirty months old have a developed sense of _______.
  10. 16. Children as young as _______ years of age can tell lies.