Summary
Amendment No. 20 (2015) to the Youth (Care and Supervision) Law allowing direct fines on the parents of minors convicted of a Penal Code offence, which Adalah’s Discriminatory Laws Database presents as collective punishment of parents, in a Description-only entry (Discriminatory Laws Database, lines 1162-1182).
Details
- The amendment allows direct fines on parents of minors convicted of an offence listed in the Penal Code, giving stone-throwing as the example (lines 1174-1178).
- Adalah’s account is that its timing, during the round of violence current at its enactment, raises fears of discriminatory deployment against parents of Palestinian children (citizens of Israel or residents of East Jerusalem) convicted of stone-throwing, and that punishing parents violates the principle that criminal responsibility is personal, since there can be no “vicarious liability” on parents for a child’s acts (lines 1174-1178).
Related pages
Discriminatory Laws Database, Adalah, East Jerusalem, Penal Code Amendment No. 120 — mandatory minimum sentences for stone-throwing, 2015