La justicia terapéutica enfocada a infracciones relacionadas con drogas y su incidencia en ecuador

Abstract

Restorative justice focused on transgressing addicts has played an essential role in different countries. Therefore, we must ask ourselves if the creation of drug courts is an alternative to incarceration and social rehabilitation and the solution to the prison problem in Ecuador. We know that Ecuador treats criminology comprehensively and sustains policies of spending millions of dollars fruitlessly without considering that the country's prisons determine that the largest population of people deprived of liberty is for drug use. Therefore, we consider it necessary to analyze the context through the Drug Courts, relating them to Restorative Justice as an alternative to avoid incarceration. To this end, we will use the Systematic Methodology or Documentary Review, supported by suitable sources of information. The creation of Drug Courts in Ecuador would be a solid base to achieve actual rehabilitation, avoiding the reinsertion of drug offenders. This mechanism would help to determine the impact of drugs on the offenders' health for their evaluation and subsequent treatment, avoiding —to a great extent— prison overcrowding, which the State is responsible for reducing due to humanitarian and economic reasons, and Drug Courts could be a relevant result. Therefore, these Courts would be a solution to prison overcrowding and recidivism, as well as to the rehabilitation and social reintegration of drug offenders.