“The lack of discipline at home is only the surface reason. The root cause [for China’s rising rate of juvenile crimes] is that society is too tolerant of children’s brutality, which has misled them into thinking they will pay no price for doing anything wrong.”
Chen Zhiwen, a columnist for Caixin, a popular financial magazine, appealing for heavier punishments for juvenile offenders. In China, people under 14 years old are legally exempt from criminal responsibility
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