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