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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids actually have a really hard time understanding that very classic acts of school yard bullying "the 'give me your lunch money or I'll punch you in the face' bully" is committing a ROBBERY - a very serious violent felony.  Kids absolutely do not understand that surrounding a kid and demanding his phone/shoes/coat/etc (implicitly if not explicitly on threat of violence) is a ROBBERY - a very serious violent felony.  Kids do not intuitively understand this.  They may know it's wrong, but if you ask them what a robbery is, they will describe a bank robbery or a store robbery.[/quote]

You're right.  [b]My seven and five year olds--kids-[/b]-would have a very hard time understanding those things.

[b]To compare that to whether a (reasonably intelligent) 15 year old can understand that holding down another adolescent and sodomizing him with a broomstick, though, is laughable.  You know that.
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And, yes, the prefrontal cortex doesn't mature until 25 years or so.  But that does not preclude a group of 15 year olds from knowing that rape is wrong and that what they did is not what you do to people.  
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This, a million times over!
 Those of you arguing that 15-year-olds are brainless babies should watch "Law and Order SUV", the issue is debated to death there, no pun intended.
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