Age of criminal responsibility according to the law

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Criminal liability is considered the adverse legal consequences that a criminal must bear for his criminal behavior. Criminal liability is a form of legal responsibility, including: the obligation to be subject to the impact of criminal prosecution activities, to be convicted, to be subject to criminal enforcement measures and to have a criminal record.

Article 12 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended and supplemented in 2017, stipulates the age of criminal responsibility as follows:

1. Persons aged 16 years or older shall bear criminal responsibility for all crimes, except for crimes otherwise provided for in this Code.

2. A person aged 14 or older, but under 16 years old, shall only be criminally responsible for murder, intentional injury or harm to the health of another person, rape, rape of a person under 16 years old, rape of a person from 13 to under 16 years old, robbery, kidnapping for the purpose of appropriating property; for very serious crimes, especially serious crimes specified in one of the following articles:

a) Article 143 (crime of rape); Article 150 (crime of human trafficking); Article 151 (crime of human trafficking under 16 years old);

b) Article 170 (crime of extortion); Article 171 (crime of robbery); Article 173 (crime of theft); Article 178 (crime of destruction or intentional damage to property);

c) Article 248 (crime of illegal production of narcotics); Article 249 (crime of illegal possession of narcotics); Article 250 (crime of illegal transportation of narcotics); Article 251 (crime of illegal trading of narcotics); Article 252 (crime of appropriation of narcotics);

d) Article 265 (crime of organizing illegal racing); Article 266 (crime of illegal racing);

d) Article 285 (crime of manufacturing, trading, exchanging or giving away tools, equipment, software for illegal purposes); Article 286 (crime of disseminating computer programs that harm the operation of computer networks, telecommunications networks, and electronic means); Article 287 (crime of obstructing or disrupting the operation of computer networks, telecommunications networks, and electronic means); Article 289 (crime of illegally accessing another person's computer network, telecommunications network, or electronic means); Article 290 (crime of using computer networks, telecommunications networks, or electronic means to commit acts of property appropriation);

e) Article 299 (crime of terrorism); Article 303 (crime of destroying important works, facilities, and means related to national security); Article 304 (crime of illegally manufacturing, storing, transporting, using, trading, or appropriating military weapons and military technical means).