La mediación con jóvenes inmigrantes en el ámbito de la justicia penal juvenil: un enfoque educativo

Abstract

Our society is more diverse and multicultural. The growing social preoccupation about educative actions and alternatives in order to improve the cohesion of our community, generates important challenges. The development of reflections based on research3 promote the comprehension of determined aspects, in a more real and less stereotyped way. It is important to flee from interested cliché, arisen from politic and ideological perspectives that tend to bias the problem. Youth Penal Justice constitutes an ambit of cultural diversity irruption, in a very significant way in recent years. In the teenagers centers as in other alternative measures, the presence of immigrant population is clearly visible. This situation is generating an important reflection about the use of the conflict management forms in Youthful the Penal Law at the moment, to answer to the new necessities and demands emerged from the changes in offender teenager population. From these pages we analyze in depth the mediation use as an alternative in penal ambit, in those cases which one of the parts is constituted by immigrant teenagers, to be able to provide comprehensive bases for the improvement of such processes