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The Delinquency Is A Symptom Of A Deep Disturbance Of Personality

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The delinquency is a symptom of a deep disturbance of personality. Is that profound disturbance which should favor the social rehabilitation: psychotherapy, drug therapy, individualized institutional, etc. Young offenders are not monsters. They are people like many others, who had never committed any criminal act. When the offender is an adolescent or child, a disturbing dissonance between the seriousness of the violation of law and the idea that it is generally the nature of the child or adolescent arises. The adolescent who commits a crime rarely is so deficient in his decision-making capacity that he cannot comprehend the immediate harmful consequences of his choice or its wrongfulness, (Scott E. 2008)

Boy, 10, charged with homicide of woman, 90
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Tristen Kurilla, 10, is charged with homicide as an adult in an adult court.
• Boy 's lawyer says his client "really kind of doesn 't have an idea of what is going on"
• Police say the boy admitted killing Helen Novak, 90, after she yelled at him
• Kurilla told police he grabbed a cane and put it against Novak 's throat and punched her

A 10-year-old boy from Wayne County was held without bail on Tuesday after being charged as an adult in the killing of a 90-year-old woman who was held down with a walking stick and beaten at her caretaker 's home.
State police said when the boy, Tristen Kurilla, lost his temper with the woman Saturday, he grabbed a cane and hooked it around her neck and then held her down

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