In recent years, society has paid more and more attention to juvenile delinquency. Whether minors should bear criminal responsibility for committing crimes has always been a controversial topic. According to the current law, minors under the age of 14 are not criminally responsible, but should their age be lowered?

Some people think that with the increasing complexity of society and the intensification of competition, minors also participate in various criminal activities. If we continue to follow the existing laws, these crimes will not be effectively cracked down, and at the same time, more minors will misunderstand their position before the law, thus committing crimes more unscrupulously. Therefore, it is necessary to lower the age of criminal responsibility of minors.

However, many people are against this practice. They believe that the root cause of juvenile delinquency is the lack of social environment and education, not age. Simply lowering the age of criminal responsibility of minors will not only fail to solve practical problems, but also cause greater harm to minors, and may even be counterproductive.

In this context, we need to seriously consider this issue and take scientific and reasonable measures to protect the rights and interests of minors, while ensuring judicial justice and social stability. No matter whether the age of criminal responsibility of minors is reduced or not, we should strengthen the education and management of minors so that they can realize their mistakes and return to society.