SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 109
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Against this background, public fear of gang violence and youth crime has generated social pressure for the criminalization of children and adolescents, together with a call for a lower minimum age of criminal responsibility and longer sentences of imprisonment. This has been accompanied by media stigmatization of children belonging to disadvantaged groups and a culture of tolerance of institutionalized violence against them.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children