Sobre la responsabilidad penal de un cerebro adolescente: Aproximación a las aportaciones de la neurociencia acerca del tratamiento penal de los menores de edad

• Autores: Laura Pozuelo Pérez
• Localización: Indret: Revista para el Análisis del Derecho, ISSN-e 1698-739X, Nº. 2, 2015
• Idioma: español
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  • La idea de que debe existir una respuesta penal diferenciada para los menores de edad y para los adultos está integrada en nuestro ordenamiento y en la mayoría de los sistemas legales de nuestro entorno, pero cíclicamente esa idea se pone en cuestión, lo que suele ir acompañado de propuestas que intentan acercar el tratamiento penal de los menores al de los adultos. Diversas disciplinas científicas como la psicología evolutiva y, más recientemente, la neurociencia, demuestran las enormes diferencias existentes entre los adolescentes y los adultos, que han llegado incluso a invocarse ante los tribunales penales. En este trabajo se pretende mostrar que los adolescentes son menos maduros desde un punto de vista social, psicológico y neurobiológico, razón por la cual tienen menor capacidad de culpabilidad penal. Y ello, junto a la idea de que el tratamiento legal diferenciado entre menores y adultos es uno de los estándares de decencia que caracterizan a una sociedad civilizada, debe constituir base suficiente para seguir sosteniendo, en momentos críticos, la necesidad de seguir diferenciando penalmente a los niños y a los adolescentes de los adultos.

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