Abstract
In this chapter, I examine children's responsibility from three different angles. First, I look at standard threshold conditions for responsibility and provide considerations to guide us in deciding whether or when children can meet these conditions. Second, I discuss David Shoemaker's tripartite view of responsibility according to which an agent might be responsible along one or two dimensions of responsibility without being responsible along all three. Third, I address the idea of degrees of blameworthiness. I discuss the development of narrative capacity as a potential explanation for why children and adolescents (even those meeting the standard conditions of responsibility) might be less blameworthy than adults.
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