A insuficiência do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente frente a criminalidade juvenil e a polêmica acerca da redução da maioridade penal

Abstract

In this paper, an analyzes of the possibility of lowering the age of criminal responsibility is made as a way of reducing youth crime rates. Therefore, we take a critical approach of some concepts related to the theme, such as guilt; the accountability; the criminal responsibility of those under eighteen; the Statute of Children and Teenager (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente) and the punishments applied to the juvenile offender; arguments in favor and against penal reduction and the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution on this subject. Thus, we will be able to analyze, in a safe and cohesive way, the need and relevance of establishing a new age for possible punishment of minors, through the analysis of the constitutionality of this measure, until we reach a solution that satisfies the public safety issues and the legal protection of those under eighteen, culminating in the effective reduction of crime rates involving teenagers.