In the US they don't really get punished unless they are poor or a minority. I grew up in the suburbs and many of the parents had good money. They could afford lawyers and in some cases the cops and DA just didn't want to mess with kids. Two examples:
-Some high school kids found out a neighbor was out of town. They broke into the house, threw a monster party and trashed it completely. It was a pretty big story on the local news, took place in a wealthy suburb in a million dollar home. The videos of it were sick, feces on the wall, everything ransacked, vomit and stuff everywhere. The kids got some community service.
-This was in a suburb North of Chicago (
here is the story). The suburb is real wealthy, lot of sons of lawyers, doctors, etc. This made national news, the hazing got real bad. Some people had broken bones, were hit with baseball bats and poles, major cuts. It was captured on multiple cameras. The school tried to expel the students and were threatened with a lawsuit and pussed out. The cops didn't do shit. They let the kids come in at their leisure to be booked and the DA cut bullshit deals with all of them.
So it's kind of a mess here in the US. In Chicago, I've seen black kids thrown to the ground, cuffed, and roughed up because they were loitering or playing basketball on courts after hours. In the suburbs, white kids can beat the shit out of people with deadly weapons, get