This essay addresses the issue of the end of the institution of criminal majority, in which it seeks to clarify the fact that, given the advances in psychological sciences regarding the behavior and consciousness of individuals in conflict with the law, aware of the risks and damages invoked against themselves and third parties, the maintenance of a legal scope that overprotects this individual, transforming him into someone incapable from a legal and psychological point of view, is contrary to sociological and pedagogical development. Its scientific relevance lies in the fact that it discusses a legal issue that has become urgent, from sociological and psychological aspects. Its social relevance lies in presenting to the general public the mechanisms of legal protection for children and adolescents against vulnerabilities that have become instruments of terror and threats to public order. This is a bibliographical essay, based on national and international authors and on the systematic study of Brazilian law, on which the creation and maintenance of such a legal institution was based, whose naive interest is to protect children and adolescents. The aim of this essay is to have a broad and technical discussion about the elimination of the institution of criminal majority, in which delinquents would no longer be judged according to their respective ages, analyzing whether or not they are accountable according to the law; however, they would be subject to arbitrary judgment according to the degree, lethality of their actions and the damage caused by them to third parties. It is concluded that the end of the institution of criminal majority is intended to protect society from the shady interests of groups that have become manipulators of justice, taking as their object of individual protection a cause that, a priori, and in the early days of Brazilian justice, demonstrated or seemed to be of a noble nature.
Abreu et al. (Fri,) studied this question.