Tasa de reincidencia de la delincuencia juvenil de Extremadura. Medidas privativas de libertad
After more than 10 years of the entry into force of the Organic Law 5/2000, of January 12, on Penal Responsibility of the Minor, it becomes indispensable to carry out a research on the juvenile recidivism in Extremadura in order to know the impact of the above mentioned rule. There is no doubt that...
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2012
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4932872 |
| Source: | Revista sobre la infancia y la adolescencia, ISSN 2174-7210, Nº. 2, 2012, pags. 37-67 |
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After more than 10 years of the entry into force of the Organic Law 5/2000, of January 12, on Penal Responsibility of the Minor, it becomes indispensable to carry out a research on the juvenile recidivism in Extremadura in order to know the impact of the above mentioned rule. There is no doubt that one of the problems that more social alarm generates is the delinquency committed by youths with penal responsibility. First, a revision is been carried out on the current literature on recidivism, preventative programs, treatment to juvenile delinquents and the evaluation of the efficiency of these programs. In this research, following the methodology of other national studies as that of Catalonia, we analyse the recidivism of the juvenile delinquency in Estremadura, focusing on deprivation of freedom. Closed prosecutions of those youngsters who were released after serving a measure of this type in 2007 and their follow-up until 2010 are analysed. In 2007, 115 youngsters faced a deprivation of freedom measure in a Juvenile Detention Centre or Week end Permanency Centre, from which 63 (57 male and 7 female youths) were part of the final sample. The obtained results reveal that the rate of recidivism is 52,4 %, similar to that of other Autonomous Regions, as the Basque Country or Catalonia, and lower than that of Asturias. Another relevant information is that 41,9 % of the youngs tersinthe study were presenting precedents, what shows an incipient criminal career according to the existing studies. The present research helps know the efficiency of the different programs that are applied to juvenile delinquents who are subjected to interment measures, as well as it criticizes the latter since the high recidivism rate. |
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