Development of competencies in penal mediation for juvenile offenders in Ecuador

Abstract

Mediation is applied worldwide as an instrument of criminal law that seeks to repair and reintegrate young offenders, promoting responsibility, reparation of damage and the active participation of those involved in the process. The general objective was to analyze the development of mediation competencies in criminal justice in the case of juvenile offenders. For this purpose, a qualitative approach methodology was applied to achieve a wealth of meanings about mediation and young offenders. Adequate training of mediators ensures that mediation processes are effective and focused on the rehabilitation and reintegration of young people into society. Likewise, research with non-experimental design and documentary research was used with a wide range of bibliographic sources taken from magazines, articles, theses, reports, the Constitution of Ecuador, the Code of Childhood and Adolescence and books. The main results obtained were that mediation in the case of juvenile offenders has characteristics such as confidentiality, gratuitousness and voluntariness. For the prosecution of these crimes it is essential to use information from articles 255, 256, 294, 295, 296, 297 and 348 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code. Likewise, the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador was used with its articles 44, 175, 190 to give a better understanding of the subject of study in the context of the Code of Childhood and Adolescence.