Kids can be directly punished if they break a law in the USA?
In Romania(if i remember correctly), you need to be at least 14 to be punished(if it is proven that the person knew what they were doing was illegal). I assumed it was the same in other countries
There are some deeply red marking on this map, over in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_criminal_responsibility#/media/File:Criminal_age.svg
I feel like that map may be a little misleading. Just because a state doesn’t have a statutory age limit on treating a child as an adult doesn’t mean that is common practice. In most states, the default is that any crime committed by a suspect under the age of 18 is handled by the juvenile court system, where penalties are far less severe, unless some special nature of the crime prompts a court to try the accused as an adult (eg murder or violent rape). A few states set the juvenile cutoff a little earlier.
So it’s more like “we reserve the option to prosecute a child as an adult, but we almost never do”. http://www.jjgps.org/jurisdictional-boundaries
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2016/01/23/the-youngest-kid-ever-arrested-in-florida-was-a-4-year-old/
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/30/us/boy-12-to-be-nation-s-youngest-prison-inmate.html
Hmmm more Florida
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1093313589/states-juvenile-minimum-age-arrested-advocates-change