In Germany, young people are criminally responsible from the age of 14. That means: young people who are 14 years or older and violate criminal law …

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Criminal responsibility begins at the age of 14 (§ 19 Criminal Code): young people who break criminal law can be punished, though under juvenile criminal law with its special rules. They are therefore not treated like adults (b), parents do not share the punishment (c), and they do not go unpunished (d).

Criminally responsible from 14: punished, but under juvenile criminal law.

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