La justicia restaurativa como complemento de la justicia retributiva

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to expose the reader to the conceptual origins and meaning of retributive criminal justice, which seeks to impose a penalty or a correlative penalty on the offender of the criminal law or to make the victim feel the same evil caused through crime, and also make restorative justice known as a new way of interpreting justice and the ways to reach it, giving the victim its rightful place as the protagonist of the conflict caused and recognizing that not only she suffered a detriment to their interests, but the conflict also transcended the community. In the same way, reference the differences and similarities that some authors and writers of this dogmatic have made. As an additional bonus to this article, a very important topic such as restorative justice in comparative law will be touched on in order to know how this institute is managed in other countries of the world; so with clear concepts to be able to reach a conclusion with a theoretical basis on the complementarity that must exist between restorative and retributive justice to give good practice to Colombian criminal law