The imputability of the minor in the Italian legal system: the assessment of the level of maturity. - Tra i Leoni

Reading time: 4 minutes By Niccolò Frosini In the event that the perpetrator of the crime is a minor who is over fourteen years of age, the Criminal Code provides that he is only liable if, at the time he committed the act, he had the capacity to understand and to want. The latter, as regards the minor between fourteen and eighteen years of age, is usually identified in the concept of maturity, which does not result from any legislative provisio…