On The Legal Age Of Criminal Responsibility Of Minors In China - Whether To Reduce The Minimum Age Of Criminal Responsibility

Minors’ criminal responsibility is the premise of criminal responsibility age.Criminal responsibility age system established what age minors should bear criminal responsibility,and within the scope of what the criminal criminal responsibility.Legislation in our country has been the minor guided from the basic principle,adhere to the education is given priority to,punishment is complementary basic standpoint.But in recent years,the phenomenon of juvenile crime carried the criminal responsibility age issues to the forefront.Whether to reduce minimum criminal responsibility age a wide range of discussions in the academic and theoretical.This article from criminal responsibility age academic controversy as a starting point,discusses the issue of the criminal responsibility of minor crime in our country.The article is divided into five parts.The first part mainly introduces our country juvenile crime and criminal responsibility age legislation present situation,the overall trend in recent years,juvenile crime,discusses the basic features,cause of crime,the clarity of the gravity of the minor crime in our country;And the legislation of the age of criminal responsibility in China is analyzed.The second part introduces the problems existing in the age of criminal responsibility of minors.The third part to different countries abroad as the research object,studies its criminal responsibility age minors,trends in the mainstream of the international regulations on criminal responsibility age,in order to draw lessons from foreign countries for a minor crime in the legislation principles and experience prevention punishment.The fourth part is to comb through the disputes of the present country on whether to reduce the age of criminal responsibility,analyze and summarize,and put forward his own opinions.The fifth part is within the context of don’t reduce the minimum criminal responsibility age,for preventing minor crime and put forward ideas of minors,hope to provide certain reference for the future legislation.