Minors and Criminal Responsibility: the Debate is Reopened

Abstract

This paper offers an overview of a topic that has been, is and will remain controversial: the criminal responsibility of minors. To achieve this objective you will notice current regulation in  this regard, which up to the current situation has due a long way of reforms that will be reviewed in some of its most controversial aspects. The undoubted regulatory criminal character of  the LO 5/2000, of January 12, the criminal liability of minors, of the measures  imposed and, consequently, of responsibility required of children subjected to it will also be based. An important  part of this article will be dedicated  on one hand, these children between 14 and 18 recipients of the LO 5/2000, for which, among other things, will determine whether or not they are attributable; and, second, to those who have less than 14 years, reflecting, inter alia, on whether or not to lower that age limit at least to begin to demand criminal responsibility.