Naming the boy could act as a "potential deterrent" to others, he added, but more important was the "general interest in open justice", he said.
Generally speaking, courts tend to take the view that there is a potential deterrent effect in naming and shaming young people found guilty of serious crimes.
[New York Post] Bankrate.com reports that New York has the highest mortgage closing costs of any state, a potential deterrent to would-be residents.
That move was criticized by Haiti's interim prime minister, Gérard Latortue, who said Mr. Aristide's presence in the Caribbean was a potential deterrent to peace and stability in his country.
Second, for vulnerable countries, "the real value of nuclear bombs" today is not, as Mr. Wilson writes, "as status symbols" but as a potential deterrent against an American attack.
In addition to providing a potential deterrent to attackers, Iran's advances in solid-fuel missile technology, and the concern it could eventually have intercontinental reach, have been at the heart of the Obama administration's insistence on the need for new missile-defense programs.
