The global juvenile-justice reference
How juvenile justice works, jurisdiction by jurisdiction
A structured, sourced reference on juvenile justice worldwide — landmark rulings, minimum ages of criminal responsibility, court structures, and what changed.
Core coverage: 100 landmark decisions across 10 jurisdictions in 6 world regions, alongside a worldwide table of minimum ages of criminal responsibility.
What changed
Amendments, rulings and reforms as they are recorded against a jurisdiction. Where a tracked figure moved, the old and new values are shown.
No changes recorded yet
This feed lists amendments, rulings and reforms as they are verified against a primary source. Nothing has been recorded so far.
Minimum age of criminal responsibility
The age below which a child cannot be charged with a criminal offence, across the jurisdictions profiled in full.
No jurisdiction profiles published yet
The comparison is built from published profiles. None are available, so there is nothing to compare.
Jurisdiction profiles
Each profile sets out the minimum age, the court structure, sentencing limits and the key legislation, with a source and a verification date for every figure.
No jurisdiction profiles published yet
Profiles appear here once they have passed anonymisation review and carry at least one source.
Landmark cases
The decisions that set the rules, drawn from across the 10 core jurisdictions. Case names are reproduced exactly as the law report published them.
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Cases appear here once they have passed anonymisation review. Every entry carries its citation and at least one source.
Latest writing
Analysis, dated news and clearly labelled opinion.
Nothing published yet
Analysis, dated news and clearly labelled opinion will appear here as it is published.
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A short digest of juvenile-justice reforms and rulings. No more than twice a month.
Use the data
Every figure on this site is downloadable: jurisdiction profiles, the minimum-age table, the case index and the change log, as CSV and JSON, with sources and as-of dates attached.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Suggested citation
- JuveLaw (2026). Juvenile Justice Comparative Dataset. https://juvelaw.com/data
Every row carries the source it was taken from and the date that source was last checked. Where a figure is unknown the field is empty — it is never filled with an estimate.