Adingabea Zuzenbide Penalaren aurrean: 5/2000 Lege Organikoarekiko hurbilketa kritikoa

LANDA GOROSTIZA, Jon-Mirena

Publication year:

2002

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-1951

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Summary

The Law on Minors´ Penal Responsibility (LO 5/2000) is now in force, and this is a good time to analyse its governing principles. Even though it is still necessary to count on a similar penal regulation to that existing in several western European countries, the Law that has finally been approved in the Spanish State contains considerable flaws, especially after the latest legal reform that affects serious offences and terrorism. The present article examines the mode of responsibility envisaged for young people in comparative law, in international law and making reference to the contribution of social sciences, while making both a positive and a negative criticism of the mentioned law.