Las medidas socioeducativas como mecanismo de reducción de reincidencia en adolescentes infractores en el año 2021 en el cantón Otavalo

Abstract

The present study was carried out with the purpose of determining if the socio-educational measures were mechanisms to reduce recidivism in adolescent offenders in the year 2021 in the Otavalo canton, in order to understand the application of these measures and establish the effectiveness in the system of juvenile justice, for which the national and international legal regime focused on the protection and integral development of adolescents was described. The criminal policy and the socio-educational policies that are imposed on adolescent offenders to avoid recidivism, was able to understand how the institutions are articulated in the socio educational process of adolescent offenders and the effects of their application in the specialized system. The present approach was qualitative, because it corresponded to a documentary investigation with a descriptive level of depth, study applying socio-legal methods, and inductive-deductive methods that allowed compiling information on the problem from different sources, the techniques used were documentary analysis and interview. Reaching as a result that the application of socio-educational measures directly influences the reduction of recidivism, because it allows adolescents through the programs determined in the Code for Children and Adolescents, to understand the effects of acting against the law and do not commit another infraction again.