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Mr Straw also plans to abolish the legal convention of doli incapax.
ECONOMIST: Youth crime
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Abolishing doli incapax is a cheap gesture which ignores a ten-year- old's genuine difficulty in thinking through the long-term consequences of his actions.
ECONOMIST: Young offenders
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But Mr Howard has come up with nothing as severe as the abolition of doli incapax, and has refused to support blanket youth curfews.
ECONOMIST: Young offenders