Responsabilidad penal del menor desde un punto de vista comparado

Abstract

In the historical development of the concept of youth penalty or criminal responsibility of minors has been well identified the continued complexity of treatment, within a historical framework we find that in criminal law code of 1980, the child was unimpeachable, so court judges were forced to be indifferent to punishable committed by minors, this problem forced the legislature to route a code less than a nod form of responsibility for the child, but also in his capacity resocialice child and in accordance with the treatment must be in accordance with international treaties ratified by Colombia, not strip it of its inalienable guarantees, despite the legal positivist obligates judges to judge children on equal terms in a general way, without take into account the circumstances of the child or knowledge of the crime. This is entirely different from the US criminal jurisdiction granted to the judge or jury's ability to determine the responsibility of minors by steps that the Supreme Court's case law in the case summed State vs Rummer, to determine the application of ordinary criminal law adult some juvenile offenders in serious crimes