Principio de Oportunidad en el Sistema de Responsabilidad Penal para Adolescentes

Abstract

The principle of opportunity contained in article 174 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code has a different nature from the principle of opportunity for adults, contained in article 321 and following of Law 906 of 2004. The essential difference is that the The principle of opportunity is of preferential application for children and adolescents who are in controversy with the criminal law, but this does not mean that it opposes the general rules of the process established for adults.