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Palavras-chave: imputabilidade penal - redução da maioridade penal – cláusula pétrea.
Abstract: This study aims to address and discuss the reduction of legal age in Brazil, in view of the current violence by minors in the country. In Brazil, criminal responsibility is fixed from the eighteen (18) years, as set out in Article 228 of the Constitution, along with the Criminal Code and the Child and Adolescent. This paper first analyzes the possibility of amending the Constitution of the Republic on the fact of criminal responsibility be considered ironclad clause by renowned scholars of criminal law. Later, gives a social, philosophical and legal question of reducing the age of criminal, from the point of view of the constitutional right to vote, sanctions stipulated in the Statute of the Child and Adolescent problem of creating public policies at the state and finally a statistical analysis of the juvenile offender. This article was prepared by scientific literature in books, codes, journals and internet on the topic under discussion. Despite the arguments to the contrary, there is a categorical way the impossibility of reducing the age of criminal responsibility in Brazil, as evidenced by the arguments below lineada. We notice that the solution of the problem lies in crime if the state meet public policies to ensure compliance with the constitutional wording of the Criminal Code, the Penal Execution Law and especially the Statute of Children and Adolescents.
Keywords: criminal responsibility - reducing the age of criminal -