On The Construction Of Appropriate Adults In The Criminal System

Appropriate adult system is a right that is designed for the Minor criminal suspects in many countries according to the psychological and physiological characteristics of juveniles. Its content is when policemen question the Minor criminal suspects, there must be an appropriate adult in the interrogation scene, in order to prevent improper oppression by the policemen and achieve procedural fairness eventually. Appropriate Adult system is a more generally applicable system in Western countries, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Austria, Germany and Japan. We have the similar Practice in China, but the strict sense of the appropriate adult system has not yet been established. This study aims at introduce this system to China. Through researching and Contrasting with the more mature foreign systems, we make it service for the procedural justice and the protection of human rights under the national conditions of China.This paper is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the origin of appropriate adult system, and analysis from the procedural law values and social values of this system. Since the differences of the traditional national litigation and litigation mode, appropriate adult system are not same in countries. The second part is the comparison study of adult appropriate system. By comparing we could find the inspiration for our country. In the third part, we will analysis the necessity and feasibility of the appropriate adult system in China. In accordance with the establishment and application of this system in foreign countries, the author will discuss how establish this system in our country from the eight aspects in Part forth.