How to treat the proposal of lowering the age of criminal responsibility of minors?

In fact, in recent years, this topic has never stopped arguing about whether the age of criminal responsibility of minors should be lowered and how appropriate it is. Only at the two sessions in 20 19, 3 1 delegates, including Liu, deputy to the National People's Congress and principal of Xiejiawan Primary School in Chongqing, put forward the Proposal on Adjusting the Out-of-date Content in the Law on the Protection of Minors, which suggested lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility of minors stipulated in China's criminal law to 12 years old.

There are many reasons for juvenile delinquency, such as physical and mental development, social environment, guardians, prevention and so on. To determine an age limit, it is necessary to produce authoritative research and analysis data from all aspects and strive for the best cost performance of fairness and efficiency. On 20 19 10 10/2 1 day, the revised draft of the law on the protection of minors and the law on the prevention of juvenile delinquency were first submitted to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) for deliberation. In the revised draft, two chapters of "network protection" and "government protection" were added, and the articles were increased from 72 to 130. At the same time, it enriches the general principles, clearly defines the rights enjoyed by minors, the basic principles for their protection and the responsible subjects for their protection, and proposes to implement "graded intervention".

This requires the revision of the law on the protection of minors and the law on the prevention of juvenile delinquency, and the establishment of an integrated mechanism for the protection and prevention of crimes. However, we should also see that prevention involves a wide range and many levels, and the coordination between family, school and society is costly and inefficient. It may take a long time to achieve better prevention, but juvenile delinquency will happen anytime and anywhere. Some minors do use 14 years old as a "amulet", so it may be a more realistic choice to lower the starting point of criminal responsibility of minors.

Judging from the practices of various countries, according to incomplete statistics, 124 countries set the age at 13 or below, and 64 countries set the age at 14 to 16. According to the actual situation of our country and the reality of economic and social development, and referring to the experience of other countries in the world, it should be said that it may be better to set the age of criminal responsibility for juvenile delinquency as 12 or 13, and at the same time improve various conscious and compulsory measures to prevent juvenile delinquency. For example, Xiao proposed the influence of the Internet on juvenile delinquency. Although the government and society have done a lot of work, in reality, the influence of bad factors on juvenile delinquency in the network is increasing day by day. Prevention in this area really needs to be strengthened, but it also needs a process.