... which we as children are brought up in. I argue that this can't be right, we are who we are and get that from our backgrounds, family, peers etc while growing up. ' Historians agree that ideas like parenthood and childhood are socially constructed and thus can be put together in diverse set of ways' (Anderson 2002) It is also known that whatever its historical 'mutability, there is always a relationship between conceptual thought, social action, and the process of category construction, and therefore definitions of childhood must to some extent be dependant upon the society from which the emerge. (Muncie 2002) In England and Wales the legal age definitions for youth criminals are aged 10 to 17. It exists uncertainty when childhood is left behind and adulthood is achieved. As said before they are biological and psychological factors but there may and will in most young persons life be experienced at ...

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