Redução da maioridade penal: um estudo sobre a vulnerabilidade do jovem marginalizado

Abstract

With the increase in criminal practices involving minors and the outcry of society in search of solutions, the discussion on the possibility of reducing the age of criminality has intensified. Thus, after more than 20 years in process, the Draft Amendment to the Constitution 171/1993, which proposes to reduce the age of criminality from 18 to 16 years, was again debated. The PEC amends, if it is approved, Article 228 of the Federal Constitution, with which a discussion arises on the constitutionality of this amendment. From another point of view, the question of reducing the criminal majority is considered, considering its main victims and conducting a social analysis of its effective effectiveness before a State that neglects all the guarantees provided for in the Federal Constitution and in the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent (ECA) These young people are marginalized by the lack of structure and conditions worthy of survival.