Singularidades procesales y problemas prácticos de la Ley de Responsabilidad del Menor

Abstract

the adoption of Organic Law 5/2000 of 12 January, which regulates the criminal liability of minors, constituted a response to the requirements, in the matter of juvenile justice, derived from international texts as, mainly, the pre-eminence of the interests of the minor. Nevertheless, the successive amendments made were distorting its figure to the point of making it unrecognizable. This article addresses, on the one hand, the specialties with regard to the proceeding of adults that have been introduced in the criminal proceedings for minors either for stemming from the interests of the minor or as simple options for criminal policy and, on the other hand, the most problematic aspects of the law as a result of its continuous amendments.