US EditionAccording to the Public Defender, Maximiliano Benítez, “Lowering the Age of Criminal Responsibility Is Useless, Unnecessary and harmful.”
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The Federal Council of Advocates and General Advisers of the Argentine Republic and the Civil Association of the Public Defense of the Argentine Republic (ADEPRA) issued a joint communiqué before the presentation in Congress of the draft law amending the juvenile penal regime. “The low age is useless, unnecessary and harmful. In addition to unconstitutional”, highlighted ADePRA and the ...
The National Representative of the Neo Renewal Front, Oscar Herrera Ahuad, joined the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation on Tuesday, which will discuss tomorrow the opinion of the draft law on juvenile penal reform. The missionary legislator was appointed to join the commission by the Federal Innovation Interblock, which the Neo Renewal consists of three Salteños deputies. Justice, which presides over the libertarian Men…
The Public Defender of Entre Ríos, Maximiliano Benítez, expressed his opposition to the proposed modifications to the Juvenile Criminal Law submitted by the National Executive Branch to the National Congress. He explained why Argentina not only does not need to lower the age of criminal responsibility, but also why doing so would be detrimental and violate international treaties with constitutional status that obligate the State to provide prote…
In a new installment of ‘Modo Fontevecchia’, journalist Amanda Alma presented a detailed report on the critical situation of prisons in Argentina, as part of the project that the government sent to Congress to debate a new Juvenile Penal Regime. The government reform proposes, as a central axis, the lowering of the age of imputability to 13 years, under the premise of ending impunity for serious crimes committed by minors. However, Alma warned t…
BUENOS AIRES.— The Argentine Government sent to the Chamber of Deputies a bill to reduce the age of juvenile criminal responsibility from 16 to 13 years, as part of a comprehensive reform of the juvenile penal system. The initiative, formally referred to Congress, resumes a debate that the Executive had already tried to promote last year and that now returns to the agenda in a context of greater social concern about insecurity and crimes committ…
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