Is juvenile penal law modifiable?
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Abstract
In an innovative way, the new law "Infancia y Juventud" has included the legal mechanisms for the treatment of juvenile criminals. Although this is an important legal achievement, this law, as the some as the "Código the Procedimiento Penal", proposed to apply restorative justice as a separate mechanism of social processes which minimizes its educational and preventive potential. This paper analyses the restorative elements that the law has from its experience in juvenile restorative justice in other countries and proposes some guidelines to relate what the Law proposes to o wider perspective.