Discussion Of The Adjustment For Domestic Juvenile Criminal Age Limitation

During the twenty years since the revise of PRC criminal law,the economical,cultural and technical society has developed continuously,leading to an increase of juvenile crime with lower age,as well as the aggravation of severity,the auldtification,the teaming-up,the degree of violence,all of those gave rise to a heated argument regarding whether reducing the beginning age for criminal responsibility.Besides,the eight crimes regulated in Article 17 or PRC criminal law are not clear enough to be classified as an accusation or a criminal act.Consequently,National People's Congress has enacted a legislative interpretation in order to make such classification as a criminal behavior,however not only failing to eliminated such controversy,but also enlarging the range of dispute to whether such interpretation is authorized.This paper tries to review the age of criminal liability by analyzing the legislative history,the legislation conception,the social status,etc,.This article is divided into four parts,to be specific,1.Brief introduction of age for juvenile criminal liability.This paragraph,as the beginning of this article,illuminate the basic theory,laying the foundation for the subsequent argument;2.Disputes arising from age for juvenile criminal liability adjustment.Targeted at disputes about reducing the age limitation of juvenile criminal liability and age for partial criminal liability,this paragraph files out the arguable topic with brief discussion of the reason.3.The ground for discussing adjustment involving the age for juvenile criminal liability.Statement,finding the theoretical basement,in this paragraph is proceeding from four aspects,the principal for ruling the age for juvenile criminal liability,the reference taking from legislation oversea,the decisive factors for age for juvenile criminal liability,and the preliminary identification of limited criminal liability range;4.Conclusion for the adjustment involving the age for juvenile criminal liability.Conclusion for adjusting the minimum age and the limited age for juvenile criminal liability and improving solution are the main content in this paragraph.