Redução da maioridade penal: uma visão critica.

Abstract

Because of a legal criminal emergency in force in Brazil, there is once again the great controversy of the reduction of criminal majority of eighteen years for sixteen years. This work Completion of course has the scope to consider the proposal requentada media, from the analysis of historical and fundamental aspects of the legislation relevant to the theme of the analytical study of crime and the role of society in front of acts infracionais, until the confrontation between the arguments pro and against the reduction of criminal majority in Brazil. In this respect, asks itself: It would be possible and appropriate reduction of criminal majority in Brazil? As hypothesis has been that the reduction of majority criminal seems to be misleading and unable to solve the problem of juvenile crime, because it is the result of a criminal policy of maximum intervention and purely symbolic. Thus, research aims to learn aspects of evolutionary history-Right of the Child and Adolescent in Brazil; examine the issue in light of the current legal system homeland and its interrelation with the relevant international legislation, and contrast the arguments against and in favour of discussed with the legal amendment. For both points up the necessary systemic use of the method, aided by historical and evolving methods and empirical, employing up to the technical literature search, presented as greater respect clarify whether the reduction of majority is a criminal bait, imediatista solution that search, not resolved, but mask the real problem of young offenders.