Baby gang, theft, assaults, threats: “Parents must be punished for crimes committed by minors”
On the subject of gangs of very young people who commit serious crimes such as thefts, robberies, assaults on the elderly and sexual violence, theVictim Support Observatory launches a provocative proposal. To stem the youth violence rampant it is necessary to punish for the parents.
The lawyer Elisabetta Aldrovandi, President of the Observatory, explains: “The problem must be tackled in a serious and effective way. First of all, quick and authoritative responses from the institutions are needed, since we often see low penalties even in the face of serious crimes, without that re-educational effect which, especially when it comes to minors, is an indispensable aspect for recovering young people who undertake the street of crime “.
It is important, Aldrovandi underlines, reduce the use of procedural instruments as much as possible which, in fact, do not translate into a sentence effectively served, to give more space to alternative penalties involving socially useful work in nursing homes, in kennels … to be carried out not an hour from time to time but in an incisive and continuous way, so that the minor understands the negative value of what has been committed.
“As National Victim Support Observatory for some time we have launched the proposal of lower the attributable age from the current 14 to 12, because today’s kids are much more informed and aware, and when they commit crimes, they often do it in a brazen way, bragging about their impunity ”.
But above all, “for crimes committed by minors, it would be important to provide that too the parents or whoever exercises parental capacity over them were subject to specific sanctions in addition to having to compensate the damage caused to the victim, in order to fully understand the seriousness of the criminal conduct of the minor child. And this, despite the full awareness of criminal responsibility as exclusively personal, which when dealing with serious crimes committed by minors could find this corrective aimed at making parents understand any educational errors “.
While it is up to schools to “educate empathy and emotions. In fact – concludes the lawyer – certain crimes, above all violent and with a sexual background, are perpetrated by those who do not have the ability to understand the suffering it engenders in the victim”.
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