Abstract:
The work presented has the following question: Does the violence committed by children and adolescents against society be eradicated by the reduction of the youngest criminal age? Since, due to the media information, these often distorted and disseminated by the media, has aroused a huge clamor of society for such an event to occur. However, in the discussion of the article, it will be exposed and consequently sustained that the reduction theory did not solve the problem, on the contrary sensu, would aggravate another, or would generate an increase in theprison population. In addition, once the thesis has been consolidated, it will be totally unconstitutional. And finally, it will be presented as a guiding thread solving the problem, the applicability based on the constitutional principles of the dignity of the human person, reasonableness and proportionality combined with the technique of weighing the interests of a new legal hermeneutics, for the analysis in the concrete cases of the crimes practiced minors in conflict with the law. The methodology was used through bibliographic review, in codes, books, periodicals, internet and other literature concerning the subject.
