Sounds like what the study suggests, if it suggests anything at all, is that the brain peaks at around 25 and then declines. If that’s the case - maybe we should also be more lenient on people who commit crimes when they are *older* than twenty-five.
I’m okay with the belief that, really, only people who are exactly twenty-five can be seen as accountable for for their actions.
Ironically, up until 2019 Scotland had the reverse problem: the lowest age of criminal responsibility pretty much anywhere in the world.
I wonder if the current guidelines are in part an ongoing political reaction to its previous approach of treating 8 year olds as of sufficient maturity to face criminal prosecution.
It’s all made far too complicated Surely it’s just a matter of determining at what age people know the difference between right and wrong? I was quite naughty till I was about 22 and now I’m an upstanding person! Also misogyny seems to be at play here. No coincide that two of the cases were rape ???
This stuff always interests me. I had a motorcycle (ok, a motor scooter) accident with I was 19 that left me with a mild (?) brain damage. For years I would transpose words and I would have people report entire conversations that I had no memory of.
In the long term (now at age 44) it hasn't impacted me much- but think of the crimes I could have committed as a person under 25 with brain damage! The lost opportunities for mischief!
Sounds like what the study suggests, if it suggests anything at all, is that the brain peaks at around 25 and then declines. If that’s the case - maybe we should also be more lenient on people who commit crimes when they are *older* than twenty-five.
I’m okay with the belief that, really, only people who are exactly twenty-five can be seen as accountable for for their actions.
(next time I'll listen to the whole episode before commenting)
Ironically, up until 2019 Scotland had the reverse problem: the lowest age of criminal responsibility pretty much anywhere in the world.
I wonder if the current guidelines are in part an ongoing political reaction to its previous approach of treating 8 year olds as of sufficient maturity to face criminal prosecution.
It’s all made far too complicated Surely it’s just a matter of determining at what age people know the difference between right and wrong? I was quite naughty till I was about 22 and now I’m an upstanding person! Also misogyny seems to be at play here. No coincide that two of the cases were rape ???
This stuff always interests me. I had a motorcycle (ok, a motor scooter) accident with I was 19 that left me with a mild (?) brain damage. For years I would transpose words and I would have people report entire conversations that I had no memory of.
In the long term (now at age 44) it hasn't impacted me much- but think of the crimes I could have committed as a person under 25 with brain damage! The lost opportunities for mischief!