Thomas Crofts
Facilitator profile
Thomas Crofts is Professor and Associate Dean (Law) in the School of Law and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong, Adjunct Professor in the Sydney University School of Law and QUT School of Justice, and Visiting Professor in the Northumbria University School of Law. He has been researching the criminal responsibility of children since the mid-1990s. He is the author of The Criminal Responsibility of Children and Young Persons (Ashgate, 2002). Some of his more recent publications in this field include: ‘Rethinking the age of criminal responsibility’ in Thomas Crofts, Louise Kennefick & Arlie Loughnan (eds) The Routledge International Handbook on Criminal Responsibility (Routledge, 2025),360; ‘Age of Criminal Responsibility - Getting Older and Wiser’ (2025) 47(4) Criminal Law Journal 470 ; ‘The Logic and Value of the Presumption of Doli Incapax (Failing That, An Incapacity Defence)’ (2023) 43(3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 546 (co-authored with David Hamer); ‘Act Now: Raise the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility’ (2023) 35(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 118; and ‘Prosecuting Child Offenders: Factors Relevant to Rebutting the Presumption of Doli Incapax’ (2018) 40(3) Sydney Law Review 339.