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    Thailand : Call to raise minimum prosecution age to 12

    Call to raise minimum prosecution age to 12
    15/01/2012

    Justice Minister Pracha Promnok will be asked to consider raising the minimum age at which a child can be prosecuted from 10 to 12 years old.

    The move, which would require an amendment to the law, follows a recommendation by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, said Tawatchai Thaikhiew, director-general of the Juvenile Observation and Protection Department. Mr Tawatchai said he would ask Pol Gen Pracha to consider changing the minimum age on Jan 26.

    According to the department, the number of children allegedly involved in drug offences accounted for 33.25% of all drug crimes last year, up from 21% in 2010.

    Children in the three insurgency-torn southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat are more prone to be lured by drugs than those in other regions, Mr Tawatchai said.

    He said they usually take the so-called "4x100 formula", a cocktail made up of kratom leaves and cough syrup. It is a popular mixture among drug addicts in the far South.

    The department is currently conducting a study to determine what makes children fall into crime and find a solution to reverse the trend, he said.

    "The ratio of young wrongdoers from stable and broken families is fairly equal," Mr Tawatchai said.

    Many affluent parents do not raise their children properly, failing to keep them in line while many children from broken homes seek affection and warmth elsewhere, he said.

    bangkokpost.com

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    Age 12. Cant see that being a problem for any of us can you?

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    ^this one has always been a difficult one for me. The question I ask is: "At what age do you know what you have done is wrong?". The answer is probably different in a lot of cases.

    If you know what you have done is wrong, then I think you should be held accountable for that. The form of punishment would be another question. For example, do I believe that children younger than 12 should go to prison? - 99 times out of 100, no. Do I think children under the age of 12 should be held accountable [ie, prosecuted] for their actions? It pains me to say (because I would love to think that all children under the age of 12 live in such innocence they have no idea what they have done is wrong), but the answer would probably be "yes".

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    what of the suggestion that parents should be held accountable for minors actions ?

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    If the Parents of child offenders were to be held to account for their offsprings conduct then, perhaps, the behaviour of waywardly inclined children may begin to improve.
    When Parents in the U.K started to be responsible for their children, i.e; School attendance or public nuisance offences , anything that could see them end up in court themselves and get fined or imprisoned , I'm sure many of them started to discipline them for their own benefit.
    It does, and always will depend on the attitudes of the Parent tho.

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    Mid - holding parents accountable is one way to go, but that would mean parents need to watch their children 24/7. At some point, and that may be 12, you need to be held accountable for your own actions

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    Quote Originally Posted by William
    At some point, and that may be 12, you need to be held accountable for your own actions
    believe it is currently 18 , when you can vote and die for your country . ( In Australia )

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    Mid, I think you believe wrong.

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