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Vicarious Liability Vs Parental Responsibility Statues

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This dialogue will express the differences between traditional parental responsibility statues and vicarious liability. Parental responsibility statues are based on the parent’s actions and mistakes while vicarious liability statues are based off of the parent child relationship with each other.[1] Vicarious liability statues generate from the public anxiety, frustration, and rage over juvenile crime and parent’s failure to have paternal control over their children in our society.[1] Furthermore, there are only a few appellate courts cases regarding vicarious liability statues that held parents accountable for their children criminal behavior due to parent child relationship {Difonzo 2001}.[1] For example, in 1979 the State v. Akers, the
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