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.

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    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

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