REDUCTION OF CRIMINAL AGE: DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS PROPAGATED SOLUTION FOR REDUCTION OF JUVENILE CRIME

• Autor(a) principal: Campos, Luiza Hermeto Couitinho
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Diego Mendes de, Oliveira, Letícia Cancela de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/13692
• topic: Juvenile criminal; crime; age of criminal responsibility.; adolescente infrator; delito; maioridade penal.

The article intends to bring an analysis of the issue of age in criminal responsibility, its historical evolution, and the various doctrinal positions on the subject. It also offers an analysis of Brazil in relation to the world and, more specifically, brings incidence criminal data from the Children and Youth in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais to demonstrate that, in general Brazil does not variate to much of the ages of criminal responsibility for the world, and that rate of teen involved in offenses are minor compared to global averages. Therefore, one should not think in reducing the age of criminal responsibility as a way of reducing juvenile crime childish, but forms of social inclusion of adolescents, so they return not to commit crimes, and effective implementation of the guidelines given by the Estatuto da Criança e Adlolescente (ECA), and the monitoring of its applicability by public authorities.