REFERINŢE DE DREPT COMPARAT PRIVIND RĂSPUNDEREA PENALĂ A MINORILOR
REFERENCES OF COMPARATIVE LAW ON THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF MINORS

Summary/Abstract: The minor, unlike the grown up, has not and can not be assumed to have the same ability to assess his own actions. It must be taken into account all aspects that accompany the age stages of a person until she reaches the complete, mature development considered to be attained at the age of majority. Also adolescence is considered to be a critical period in which it has been ascertained an enhancement of adverse events because it is a period marked by social, physical and psychological transformations, changes that can be often very brutalm, the emotions from this period being shown with a great dynamism. For these reasons, the system of penalties for minors who have committed a crime should not be hard, and the alternative sanctions available to courts must be as various as posible.

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