Investigating crimes againist children

There are different points of view as to whether parents should be held responsible for their childrens offence. First of all, parents should be punished for the wrongdoing of their children as research has shown that family is the key influence for an adolescence to commit a crime during nurturing and parenting process (Farrington, 1996). For instance, children having an experience of being neglected by their parents, conflicts between parents or lack of having good relationship among one another affect a childs behaviour problems. Hence, parents are to blame for their childs misbehaviour since they are their childs first teacher as well as having an obligation towards their child. In addition, the reason for parents to be punished...