Jovens em conflito com a lei: uma análise jurídica sobre menores infratores e a relação com a imputabilidade penal.

Abstract

The legal age of criminal responsibility is nothing more than the minimum age for a person to be criminally responsible for the infraction committed. There is a lot of disagreement today about whether to be for or against the reduction and whether or not it is constitutional. In view of being a very current and controversial topic, a debate on this subject is necessary. The methods used to perform the present study were: historical, inductive and comparative. The result that this work intends to achieve is the fomentation of the aforementioned question, that is, the reduction of the criminal majority, being it feasible or not in view of the current situation in Brazil. It is also taken into account if minors are aware of unlawfulness, that is, whether or not they know the consequences of the act to be practiced and the reasons for juvenile delinquency and the reason behind such violence practiced by these young people.