Models, sanctions and development of the educational purpose in the System of Criminal Responsibility for Adolescents. An analysis in the adolescent offender of the crime of theft in the city of Barranquilla

The present legal-propositional research was concerned with analyzing the development of the educational purpose of sanctions in the System of Criminal Responsibility for Adolescents (SRPA), by conducting semi-structured interviews with administrative and judicial authorities who impose and monitor sanctions; in complement with the analysis of data provided by operators of the system on adolescent offenders of the Criminal Law, particularly perpetrators of the crime of theft in the city of Barranquilla (Colombia) during 2017 and 2018. It was found that 275 adolescents entered the SRPA for this punishable offense; 211 served their non-custodial measure in the Luz de Esperanza Center, where they develop a process integrated by individual, group and family therapies, simultaneous to the educational cycles, which apparently are insufficient for the achievement of the educational purpose of the sanction, attending to the recidivism rates that occur. It was proposed an educational process that develops differential, inclusive and permanent approaches, which, beyond schooling, involves them in a life project.