COMMENTARY. The tragic attack by a 13-year-old schoolboy in Staškov, Slovakia, which claimed two lives, triggered an immediate populist wave. Politicians on both sides of the border are calling for a lower age limit for criminal responsibility and harsher sentences. From the perspective of clinical psychology, we must sound the alarm – let's help children before they pick up a knife, ex post repression solves nothing.
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COMMENTARY. The tragic attack by a 13-year-old schoolboy in Staškov, Slovakia, which claimed two lives, triggered an immediate populist wave. Politicians on both sides of the border are calling for a lower age limit for criminal responsibility and harsher sentences. From the perspective of clinical psychology, we must sound the alarm – let's help children before they pick up a knife, ex post repression solves nothing.