Young Offender

A young offender is a young person who has been convicted or cautioned for a criminal offense. Criminal justice systems often deal with young offenders differently from adult offenders, but different countries apply the term 'young offender' to different age groups depending on the age of criminal responsibility in that country.

Read more about Young Offender:  United Kingdom, Northern Europe

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or offender:

    “You have both said well,
    And on the cause and question now in hand
    Have glozed, but superficially—not much
    Unlike young men whom Aristotle thought
    Unfit to hear moral philosophy.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The offender never pardons.”
    —English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)