降低刑事责任年龄的合理性探析

On the Rationality of Reducing the Age of Criminal Responsibility

针对降低刑事责任年龄问题,学术界主要有三种观点:维持论、降低论和弹性论。其一,刑事责任年龄保持不变。其二,将刑事责任年龄相应降低1~2岁。其三,引入英美国家恶意补足年龄制度。笔者结合实践案例,并通过对恶意补足年龄制度的分析,认为应当降低刑事责任年龄,但如果全盘采用恶意补足制度则会造成一定弊端。因此本文旨在讨论降低刑事责任年龄的合理性,进而通过降低刑事责任年龄来应对我国未成年犯罪的问题。

There are three views on whether the age of criminal responsibility should be reduced or not:the theory of reduction,the theory of maintenance and the theory of flexibility.First,the age of criminal responsibility remains unchanged.Second,reduce the age of criminal responsibility by 1-2 years.Third,introduce the system of malicious supplement age in Britain and America.Combined with practical cases,and through the analysis of the age system of malicious compensation,the author thinks that the age of criminal responsibility should be reduced,but if the malicious supplement system is adopted in an all-round way,it will cause certain disadvantages.Therefore,this paper aims to discuss the rationality of reducing the age of criminal responsibility,and then to deal with the problem of juvenile delinquency by reducing the age of criminal responsibility.