CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Brazil wants to try 16-year-olds as adults. Data argues otherwise
A 2015 demonstration against lowering the age of civil majority. Photo: Cris Faga/Fox Press Photo/Folhapress
Public safety ranks among Brazilian voters' top concerns, and few answers to it command the kind of consensus that trying 16-year-olds as adults does. The House is now moving to write the idea into the Constitution. Congressman Aluísio Mendes of the right-wing Republicanos party, who chairs the special committee reviewing the amendment, has promised a vote on the text by the end of November.
The proposal, however, is aimed at a straw man…
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