CCJ of the Chamber approves reduction of the criminal majority to 16 years The Constitution and Justice Committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved, this Wednesday (10), the proposed amendment to the Constitution that reduces the age of criminal responsibility. The proposal reduces the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 years old. Thus, teenagers aged 16 and 17 would be considered criminally liable, held criminally responsible as adults. Today, they are unaccountable and are subject to socio-educational measures, such as provision of services and hospitalization, which cannot exceed three years. 📱Bookmark g1 on Google and follow the main news of the day Deputy Mendonça Filho, from PL-PE, said that the measure is to punish crimes committed by minors: "I do not advocate that any young person be punished randomly. But being punished for taking another person's life is basic in a democratic society. He has to be punished, he has to serve as an example, he has to serve as a reference so that that act is not, once again, repeated, multiplied to the detriment of our society." CCJ of the Chamber approves reduction of the age of criminal responsibility to 16 years National Newspaper/ Reproduction Deputies from the government base argued that reducing the age of criminal responsibility will not solve the problem of public security: "They want to place 16-year-olds in the prison system, which is overcrowded, which is a recidivism machine, which society knows is not effective in combating violence itself. Much more recovers, much more of the teenager is reintegrated in socio-educational measures than the young person in the prison system", says deputy Erika Kokay, PT-DF. The PEC was approved by the Constitution and Justice Commission by 44 votes to 18. The CCJ analyzed whether the project is constitutional, without going into the content of the text, which now goes to analysis by a special commission, which needs to be created by President Hugo Motta, of the Republicans. Only then will it go to the Chamber plenary. GloboPop: click to see videos from the Jornal Nacional stage READ ALSO CCJ of the Chamber approves PEC that reduces the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16; text advances in Congress CCJ of the Chamber approves PEC that reduces the age of criminal responsibility: how the deputies voted Criminal majority: Brazil has already provided for punishment for children aged 7 and over; see history