Aplicación de la justicia restaurativa en el sistema de responsabilidad penal de adolescentes en Colombia.

Abstract

This document intends to study how the State and, mainly, the Teenage Criminal Responsibility System (hereinafter SRPA), have attempted to install the model of restorative justice in its guidelines, in its actors and in its practices. In the first chapter, a bibliography is approached that addresses this concept from different edges and points out its characteristics and its origin, to continue with a review of three related concepts such as “restorative practices”, "Restorative justice programs" and "principles for the implementation of restorative justice programs". In addition, it will define how the participation, in this justice model, of the victims, the offenders and the community should be, according to their needs and responsibilities. To end with some of the guidelines established by the RIAD for crime prevention. The second chapter of this document will focus on explaining how the SRPA works and how it works to fulfill its restorative purpose, through its actors, its approaches and means such as the principle of opportunity, mediation and conciliation. The third chapter summarizes some of the findings of monitoring or follow-up reports to the SRPA, corresponding to the application or not of restorative justice in this system.