Maioridade penal: divergências políticas e jurídicas no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro

Abstract

The work is a brief historical and political review about how the law has been devoted to the situation, needs, risks, duties and rights of children and adolescents to, inasmuch as the Brazilian Statute of Children and Adolescents (ECA), revisit the international and domestic movements which staged the scenario leading to the establishment of the Youth Criminal Law in Brazil, preceding even leading and traditional protagonist nation-states in the international community. From there, outlines a clear and objective reflection about the age of criminal responsibility and its reduction movement, scrutinizing what was considered a milestone for the Brazilian legal order. Analysing through a concise focus both majority and antagonists trends (which were even based on direct denial while confronting), arguments that powerfully emerge around the proposal, which in turn, navigates discreetly in Congress as the country's attention is focused on other crises, to dramatically change the statutory parameters.