Resumen

VASCONCELOS MENDEZ, Rubén. Progress and Setbacks of Justice for Adolescents in Mexico to Four Years of its Establishment. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2011, vol.44, n.130, pp.309-350. ISSN 2448-4873.

The December 2005 reform of Article 18 of the federal Constitution established a system of justice for adolescents in Mexico has been one of the most profound changes made in recent decades into national legal system. In this article the author shows the development of the system in its first years of exposing their progress and setbacks in the states of the Republic. It highlights the construction standards aimed at criminal proceedings for adolescents and a set of enhanced rights but also those that have been issued based on ideological assumptions than those set forth in the aforementioned constitutional provision. The conclusion is that the need to develop the principles of the system definitely leaving behind the custodial and punishable positions.

Palabras llave : adolescents; justice; due process; specialized system.