Criterios de aplicación del internamiento institucional como medida socioeducativa en el Ecuador.

Abstract

It should be borne in mind that institutional detention is one of the most rigid socioeducational measures, since it has the effect of depriving adolescents of their liberty; Therefore, it has been made clear that it must be fixed as ultima ratio and priority must be given to the mechanisms that will lead the adolescent to continue developing in a comprehensive manner and to integrate again into society and its community. For this reason, the objective of this academic work is to define and study one of the socio-educational measures existing in the legislation; Institutional Internment, which goes through certain conflicts when it comes to being applied in juvenile offenders, because there are judges who do not analyze this measure as a last resort and adopt it without taking into account that it violates the principles and rights that protect the adolescent who is in conflict with the law. Finally, the research indicates the difference between the application criteria that have been formed through doctrine and the law, which are applied in cases of juvenile offenders, in order to obtain a favorable measure in the processes and to reach conditions that benefit their reintegration into society and improve their coexistence.