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Revista de Ciencias Sociales - Número 86 (2025) - Universidad de Valparaíso - ISSN 0719-8442 - Valparaíso, Chile

Factores clave del Tribunal de Tratamiento de Drogas (TTD) para Adolescentes: Perspectivas de sus participantes y características del programa

relevant aspects. Findings emerge from a randomised participant sample formed of judges, defense lawyers, prosecutors, treatment professionals, juvenile offenders enrolled in the programme, as well as their accompanying caregivers. To these insights, we add a descriptive statistical analysis which allows us to categorize and characterise juvenile offenders.

The principal takeaways demonstrate that at transversal level all the participants interviewed positively regarded the intervention made by drug treatment courts which favoured the interruption of criminal life trajectories and change in substance use. In this way, it facilitates the process of social reintegration, highlighting specifically the importance of monthly hearings and multi-sectoral cooperation.

Keywords:

Therapeutic Justice, Court Drug, Youth Justice, Young offenders.

1. INTRODUCCIÓN

1.1. Contexto de desarrollo del TTD

El Tribunal de Tratamiento de Drogas (TTD) Oriente para Adolescentes, es una institucionalidad penal alternativa dentro del sistema de justicia, dirigida a adolescentes imputados por la comisión de un delito, con la fi-nalidad de que aquellos adolescentes que lo requieran puedan acceder a un tratamiento por consumo de drogas supervisado por el tribunal, a través de audiencias mensuales. De esta manera, el TTD se desarrolla en el marco de