A REDUÇÃO DA IMPUTABILIDADE PENAL NO DIREITO BRASILEIRO

Abstract

This assignment has a scope in treat the issue of criminal majority on paternal laws, pointing legal aspects, constitutional and social inherent to it. Majority, as known, it means essentially the ability to know and understand some acts with its all consequences attached to them. The Federal Constitution, as a major rule and located at the top of the legal system may be understood as the law of the laws, since it all should seek legal foundation. From then, during this work we will focus the criminal majority, theme vast discussed not only in the academic field, but also and specially at the forensic practice, in legislative work, finally, in the social field in general. This way, we will face the question of over all possible points of view, be it legal, included the constitutional sphere, be it social, all this way, including, the answer of the society aspiration, in front of the alarming increase of the crime in our country, that without a doubt has unlinked in various legal proposals, over the years, tending to proceed, as a way of resolution of all problems, in reduction of the penal majority. The focus of the question will have, including, a general character, once to we get to a final result, we will go through a way tending to draw a historic of the minor special legislation in Brazil and in the world and appreciate, overall, aspects connected with the own constitutional text over the proposed theme.