La justicia restaurativa como un mecanismo de solución de conflictos penales en Galápagos.

Abstract

Restorative justice through alternative methods consists of various procedures by which people can resolve their disputes without the need for jurisdictional or judicial intervention, extrajudicial processes are constituted through which the parties involved in a problem, seek settlement of the same, for which, they have a series of possibilities that must be chosen voluntarily, these procedures being an alternate set of tools of the jurisdictional function, which offers several benefits for the parties within the process. In Latin America, alternative methods for conflict resolution have been applied efficiently; In countries such as Colombia and Chile, they have adopted this model of restorative justice, which has as its main objective the comprehensive reparation of the damage to the victims. In Canada, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand this model of justice has already been applied with positive results; reason why in the present investigation the application of this method in Ecuador is proposed , especially in the province of Galapagos through the Organic Law of the Special Regime in Article 89 in criminal matters , in order to accelerate the overload process that exists in terms of minor crimes due to different limiting factors that the Island has such as: geographical location, lack of qualified personnel, technological means, and above all the lack of a Provisional Detention Center, reason for the evidence that it would be beneficial application of this restorative justice, that is why it was requested through its competent authorities that this proposal be taken into account in order for it to be included in the Organic Law of the Special Regime of the province of Galapagos