En Colombia existe un código de infancia y adolescencia que responsabiliza penalmente a los adolescentes entre 14 y 18 años ¿resulta eficaz las medidas correctivas y disciplinarias impuestas por esta ley para resocialización de los menores?

Abstract

Colombia is defined as a guarantor rule of law, the rights and duties of man. From the 1991 constitution the priority right of children and adolescents are promoted, omitting a number of minor responsibilities towards society, seeking to resolve this constitutional vacuum, fifteen years after the code was implemented childhood and adolescence where criminally responsible minors with corrective and educational measures, in order to resocialising and reintegrate them into society, but statistics show a different picture than planned by the code of childhood and adolescence, because despite corrective measures continues to increase the high rate of juvenile offenders