The New Juvenile Penal Regime Began to Govern: What Changes Will Result in a Drop in Imputability at the Age of 14
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The reform will replace the 1980 legislation, with changes in the age of imputability and the juvenile sanction scheme. What will happen to life sentences, the confinement regime and resociabilization?
The lawyer and specialist in Juvenile Justice Emilio García Méndez questions the lack of official data to measure the impact of the new regime, which since yesterday reaches adolescents between 14 and 16 years old. Mariano Lema, a specialist in criminal law and secretary of a Buenos Aires Guarantee Court, analyzes the guarantees incorporated in the reform, the limits to the confinement and the challenges that the courts will face to implement it…
Since this Saturday the new Juvenile Penal Regime began to govern in Argentina, a reform that substantially modifies the judicial treatment of adolescents who commit crimes. The main change is in the age of imputability: from now on, those who are 14 years of age or older will be able to face a criminal trial for ... Read more
True to her style, the head of the Freedom Avanza senators' bloc Patricia Bullrich celebrated the entry into force of the new Juvenile Penal Regime with a forceful publication. "From today no matter the age: if criminals, the payas," she said to the former security minister who pushed the project. The sentences reach a maximum of...
The head of the senators’ bloc of La Libertad Avanza, Patricia Bullrich, celebrated this Saturday the entry into force of the new Juvenile Penal Regime, which reduces the minimum age of imputability in Argentina from 16 to 14 years. “From today it doesn’t matter the age: if criminals, the payas,” said the former security minister through a publication in her X account, highlighting one of the main changes introduced by the regulations. Bullrich …
By Jesùs Cabral. Latin American Summary, September 5, 2026. The new Juvenile Penal Regime came into effect and, from this moment on, adolescents are punishable from the age of 14. In Argentina, Saturday, September 5th came into effect the drop in the age of punishment. It did so by Law 27.801 of the Regime [...] The entry Argentina. The new Juvenile Penal Regime entered into force: professionals warn about regressive and repressive aspects was f…
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