Sistema de Responsabilidad Penal para Adolescentes

Abstract

The object of the present article is to show the differences between procedural stages in Ordinary Penal System and Adolescent Penal Liability System in Colombia, specifically between the law 906 of 2004 and the law 1098 of 2006, respectively. That with the intention of fully making known the specialized system for the treatment of the adolescent infractor. To reach this object first of all, it would have an historic telling about the different legal dispositions that have influenced the actual model of the Adolescent Penal Liability System. Showing how at the beginning in the process the judgment was more important when the children were into an irregular situation, being recognized as subjects object of protection; while now the children and the adolescents are recognized as social subject with rights and duty, thing that deserves a major responsibility of the state. Then there´s a description of the 1098 law of 2006 without ignoring the political bill of 1991 the international treats of the children and adolescent rights, for example the convention or children rights and the 906 law of 2004. Then, there are going to be mentioned the different agents stablished in the "Codigo de Infancia y Adolescencia" and the Colombian penalty procedure code, also the most important acts of each audience ;arrest hearing, hearing to formulate the accusation, hearing to formulate the accusation, preparatory hearing and oral trial.