The journal article, Appreciating the wrongfulness of criminal conduct: Implications for the age of criminal responsibility, by Wagland and Bussey, 2017, involved a study assessing the ability of adolescents and teenagers to appreciate and understand the differences between childish mischief and criminal conduct, the basis for Age of Criminal Responsibility (ACR) legislation in many countries. The ACR for most countries are between 8-10, the purpose of this was to test to see if the Theory, although not stated, that children between the age of 10-8 don’t know the difference between criminal conduct and childish mischief. In the study, although, Wagland and Bussey did not have a specific hypothesis, In order to test the theory
