Juvenile delinquency, also known as "juvenile offending", is participation in

illegal behavior by minors, individuals younger than the statutory age of

majority). Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with
juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers, A juvenile delinquent in Perú is a
person who is typically below 18 years of age and commits an act that
otherwise would have been charged as a crime if they were an adult.
Depending on the type and severity of the offense committed, it is possible for
people under 18 to be charged and treated as adults.

 There are more than 1,700 minors held for robbery, rape and homicide

 Harder punishments In the middle of this panorama, a project has been

presented to toughen sanctions against offenders older than 16 years
involved in hiring, kidnapping and other serious crimes. Proposal has
been questioned by specialists

 In the middle of this panorama, Úrsula Letona, congressman of Fuerza

Popular, presented, a few days ago, a bill that proposes an increase in
the punishment of internment, from six to 15 years, to adolescents 16
and under 18 years that commit qualified homicide, kidnapping, rape and
hired killers.

 This project does not solve the problem. The State has to invest in
prevention and attention to children; he has to work with families and at
school; it must have alternative programs to strengthen the capacities of
the children, to better occupy their free time and to give answers to these
problems that are not solved by placing adolescents in prisons.

 I think everything depends on the government, even if the population is

organized, the government has to contribute and apparently this is a
topic that he is indifferent