Lock up your sons and daughters / Economist, 6 September 2007
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"Punishing children needs a deft touch. That isn't the government's strong point
“THE untouchables” was how one newspaper described the hoodlums who were revealed on September 2nd to have committed 3,000 crimes while cunningly staying beyond the reach of the law. The secret of these sinister-sounding criminal masterminds? All were under ten years old, and immune from prosecution because of their age."