Alcances y limitaciones de la justicia restaurativa en el marco del sistema de responsabilidad penal para adolescentes (SRPA) en Colombia

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the scope and limitations of restorative justice within the framework of the system of criminal responsibility for adolescents in Colombia; In order to achieve this objective, both legislation and jurisprudence and national doctrine were taken into account, as well as international postulates, which helped establish, as one of the main conclusions, that juvenile justice is intended to assume another way of doing Justice that surpasses the traditional retributive justice. The idea with the current system of criminal responsibility for adolescents is not to apply penalties, but educational sanctions with a formative, educational, restorative vision, where they are not sent to prisons to those young people who violate the law, or who are With judicial records, all under a guarantor context where it prizes its recognition as a person; however, the reality is very different, because the specialized care centers for children have equal and even worse conditions than prisons and prisons for adults.