Plebiscite / Popular Initiative to Reduce the Age of Imputability
The popular initiative on the age for criminal responsibility sought to reduce the age to 16 years for cases of homicide, serious injury, robbery, extortion, kidnapping and rape, among other crimes, in order to apply the adult Penal Code. The main stakeholder who motivated this reform was the Colorado Party, supported by the National Party, through the National Commission for Security in Peace, formed in 2011 to organize the plebiscite. In 2012, the necessary signatures were presented to enable the plebiscite and finally in 2014, 47% voted in favor of the reform, which meant rejection of it.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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