Redução da maioridade penal, e seus aspectos jurídicos no direito de punir

Abstract

This scientific article whose methodology was descriptive literature of a qualitative approach for the construction of legal knowledge on reducing criminal responsibility and legal aspects of the right to punish, has as its central purpose to highlight, briefly, the uproar found by law enforcement officers, the discussion about the proposed constitutional amendments on the measure and explain what constitutes the offense under the aegis of the Child and Adolescent (ECA), diving, giving particular emphasis to the above embodiments mentioned. It emphasizes, moreover, the problem of the proposal that would allow young people between 16 and 18 were tried as adults in exceptional circumstances at the request of prosecutors and court authorization.