Is a child who has lived in a "horrific, crime-producing environment" entitled to be considered a child's victim?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Brown, B265329 (Cal. App. 2016):
own environment' and lack the ability to extricate themselves from horrific, crime-producing settings. (Ibid.) And third, a child's character is not as 'well formed' as an adult's; his traits are 'less fixed' and his actions less likely to be 'evidence of irretrievabl[e] deprav[ity].'" (Miller v. Alabama, supra, 132 S.Ct. at p. 2464.)
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