Table of Contents

Introduction; The Context of the Bulger Case and its Ripple Effect; Children and the Mental Element in Criminal Law; Recognition of the Child's Criminal Capacity in Law; The Treatment of Children in Scots Criminal Law Historically; The Modern Law; Welfare and the Children's Hearings System; Concluding Thoughts.

About the Author

Claire McDiarmid is Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde. She has been teaching and researching Scots criminal law for more than 20 years. She is co-author, with Professor Pamela Ferguson, of Scots Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis (2nd ed: Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and Scots Criminal Law Essentials (3rd ed: Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and has also published widely on legal responses to children who offend.