Previously juvenile offenders were severely punished. But recently, judges and experts agree that the environment is as much at fault as the child.
研究兒童犯罪成因的學者一致認為：「兒童犯罪行為是點滴累積而成」，中國人有句老話也足以說明這種情形：「小時偷針，大時偷金」。