Los desafíos de la justicia para adolescentes en América Latina


Book Description

En el transcurso de tres décadas, América Latina ha sido escenario de numerosas reformas a las instituciones de justicia, entre las cuales se encuentra el régimen especializado de adolescentes. La región navega entre dos corrientes: una que promueve los derechos humanos y un régimen garantista, y otra que impulsa políticas punitivas y criminaliza a la juventud. Este libro muestra qué son los sistemas de justicia para adolescentes y en qué medida promueven el reconocimiento de derechos humanos de niñas, niños y jóvenes, procuran la transformación de las conductas ilícitas y proporcionan alternativas de salida. Las autoras y autores comparan cuatro países (Brasil, Chile, México y Uruguay) con sistemas relativamente similares de tratamiento de adolescentes infractores, muestran los desafíos que enfrentan para implementarlo, así como el enorme lastre del pasado punitivo penalista reflejado en las leyes, las instituciones y el comportamiento de las autoridades judiciales y policiales. El panorama general presenta una imagen de un sistema de justicia para adolescentes inacabado y débil que no atiende plenamente los problemas de fondo. Las políticas públicas hacia este sector de la población siguen siendo marginales. En estas condiciones, la posibilidad de las adolescencias de acceder a la justicia seguirá siendo un magnífico reto en América Latina. El libro es resultado de una investigación financiada por el Fondo Conjunto de Cooperación México-Uruguay, de sus agencias nacionales: Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID) y Agencia Uruguaya de Cooperación Internacional (AUCI), y de la colaboración de la Universidad de la República y El Colegio de México.




Latin American Social Work in the Justice System


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Social work has long been working directly with the criminal and civil courts of the justice system. The work of Latin American practitioners in the legal system, however, is little known at global and local levels. This book is the first to go beyond Western-centric appraisals and presents a truly Latin American portrait of social work in the justice system. The long-term interaction of social work practitioners with the judicial system enabled them to develop an expertise to dialogue with other disciplines such as law and psychology. This knowledge is very important to identify and share with other professionals to develop specialized programs for education and training. In this sense, positive and negative experiences of social work in the justice system allow one to improve its practice. It is crucial to identify local experiences and the great dilemmas that the profession faces on this subject. The volume's chapters deal with these dynamics in Latin American countries including: Forensic Social Work: The construction of possible ways of the criminal intervention Socio-Legal Social Work in the Field of Criminal Defense Family and Community Life: Contributions of Social Work to the Debate in Family Courts Support to Victims in High-conflict Scenarios: An approach from the socio-legal, the pedagogical, and the care perspectives The Assessment of Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse Allegations from a Social Work Perspective Latin American Social Work in the Justice System is essential reading for students, researchers, academicians, policymakers, and practitioners who are interested in international social work with a special focus on Latin American countries and legal culture. Students and scholars in law, development studies, and public policy as well as psychologists working with and interested in the judicial system would also find this book a useful resource.




Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective


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Provides a comparison of criminal justice and juvenile justice systems across the world, looking for points of comparison and policy variance that can lead to positive change in the United States. Contributors discuss important issues such as the relationship between political change and juvenile justice, the common labels used to unify juvenile systems in different regions and in different forms of government, the types of juvenile systems that exist and how they differ, and more. Furthermore, they use data on criminal versus juvenile justice in a wide variety of nations to create a new explanation of why separate juvenile and criminal courts are felt to be necessary. --From publisher description.




The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America


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The essays included in this volume provide both an assessment of key areas and current trends in sociology, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies. The volume serves as an effective bridge of communication allowing sociological academies to mobilize and disseminate research dynamics from Latin America to the rest of the world.




Comparative Criminal Justice


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"As the world becomes increasingly globalized, a shared understanding of the various aspects of criminal justice becomes imperative. Drawing from countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the Western Hemisphere, this book is a go-to reference in comparative criminal justice studies"--




ILO Activities in the Americas, 2003-2006


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Summarizes the principal outcome of ILO work in the region. Includes listings of technical cooperation projects and of books, reports, CD-ROMs, videos, and CINTERFOR publications issued.




Working with Young People


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Working with Young People offers a new outlook on social, cultural, and educational work with young people. It utlizes the perspective of social pedagogy--a theoretical and practical perspective that has been developing in continental Europe over the last 150 years--in placing young people at the center of socio-educational work and giving value to their decisions and actions. The text supports youths' process of personal construction within the framework of the community in which they live. The book is organized into three large blocks of chapters. The introduction aims to prepare readers for the social pedagogy approach to work with young people. It briefly outlines its current situation in the world and, relate it to the main professions in which it is embodied in different socio-cultural contexts: social pedagogy, social education, and social work. The first block presents the framework and socio-pedagogical, theoretical, and practical parameters in which work with young people takes place in Europe and Latin America. The second block of chapters deals with youth policies and the training and professionalization of educators and those who work with young people. The last block focuses on some socio-educational practices with young people that include youth justice, social inclusion process, youth participation in digital life or transition to adult life. The book is based on a wide perspective of young people from cultural diversity.




Re-defining Children’s Participation in the Countries of the South


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The focus of this book is centered on the participation of children in countries of the South. In this sense, it will review the possibilities of children's participation, as well as their forms of participation in different contexts of daily life. There has been a tendency to underestimate children’s role as active constructors of their surrounding social space, as well as of the internalized interpretations of the way social life operates. Today it is necessary to recognize that children are agents actively involved in the construction of their own lives and the life of the societies they live in; and in this sense, it is important to consider and re-signify the participation of boys and girls as a fundamental pillar in the process of building societies in the 21st century. The book contains chapters that re-significate children’s participation in different countries from South America and South Africa, in relation with different topics: well-being, methods, citizenship, poverty, education, rurality, ethics and human rights.