Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame for Occlumency?)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 101140

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/13/2004 7:52:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> dumbledore11214 at y... writes:
> Just a brief comment. There is a reason, why  in the criminal cases 
> children often get different punishment than if the adult commits 
the 
> same crime.
> ===========
> Sherrie here:
> 
> Not always - and not of late.  Over the past decade or more, 
there's been 
> much of a trend to have younger and younger defendants tried as 
adults, with 
> adult penalties being given - the only differences being that they 
are usually 
> incarcerated separately until they turn 18 or 21, and they are not 
generally 
> subject to the death penalty where it exists.  The theory being, if 
they're old 
> enough to do the crime, they're old enough to do the time.  
(Actually something 
> of a throwback - there are records of 12-year-olds being 
incarcerated at Sing 
> Sing, back when we first opened up shop, back around 1828.)
> 
> Sherrie
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



Alla:


Of course, not always. The worse the crime is, the older defendant 
is , etc., etc. But often enough to make a point on why age 
matters> :o)