Sentence examples similar to ages of responsibility from inspiring English sources

This is the age of responsibility.

The first is with the criminal age of responsibility.

Children aged under 10 fall below the criminal age of responsibility.

Only Switzerland has a comparable age of responsibility, according to a study by the Council of Europe.

"I think Bob Diamond's resignation is the first step towards the new age of responsibility we need to see".

The country has "got to be run by a different ethic" that will usher in an age of responsibility and alter the behaviour of everyone from top to bottom of society.

When it comes to legalised substances we regard as dangerous, the classic approach is to legislate a minimum age of responsibility, usually 18, when we believe people are adult enough to assess the benefits and risks of partaking for themselves.

The effective date of a change in the age of responsibility — which would divert many 16- and 17-year-old defendants to family court, rather than criminal court — was also in question.

They have also said that Ms Atkinson was correct to raise the debate on the age of criminal responsibility because of Britain's status as the country with one of the lowest age of responsibility in the world and the fact that the age has remained the same for nearly 50 years.

The hard cut-offs societies use to determine the age of responsibility for crimes may not be rooted in science but research now shows that certain parts of the brain develop at very different rates.

The fact that England and Wales has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the EU.