With the advancement of the construction of a country under the
rule of law, juvenile delinquency has attracted more and more public attention.
The increasing number of juvenile criminal cases and the frequent exposure of
malignant juvenile criminal cases make both the judicial staff and the general
public have questions about the minimum age of criminal responsibility as
stipulated in the Criminal Law of China. It is undeniable that the current
provisions are no longer in line with the social development and the physical
and mental development level of minors, and blindly maintaining the stability
of the law will only aggravate the damage to the authority of the law. Moreover,
lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility does not mean a violation
of current ideas and national policies, but is a kind of maintenance. Therefore,
to break through the age of criminal responsibility is not only the improvement
of the Criminal Law, but also the promotion and promotion of social stability.