형사책임연령 하향에 대한 비판적 고찰 : 형사미성년과 촉법소년을 중심으로

This research aims to study the minimum age of the criminal responsibility. Juvenile delinquency and crime has been recently conducting by younger ages and its way of committing criminal has been wicked and cruel. Although the number of juvenile delinquency and crime has been less due to the population decrease of young people, the rate of the second conviction has increased. However, such generalizations would be wrong for lower the age of juvenile delinquency and crime. juvenile act amendment from in 2007 is amended for the juvenile justice system reform around the guide-leader, and diversification-strengthening of juvenile protection policy through increase-division of juvenile protection disposal. Through the amendment of the penal code and the juvenile act, to lower the age of criminal responsibility is not important issue. Regarding those juvenile delinquency and crime problems, there are many critics in the society and become the social issues in terms of juvenile act, which would not solve the problems with the right way. We should not leave children on the conveyor belt to make criminals. Thus, it must be required to make the supplement on the structures and systems in juvenile act, and be designed the effective way of preventing the juvenile delinquency and crime.