Cómo se podría implementar un tribunal de tratamiento de drogas en Ecuador, bajo el enfoque de la justicia terapéutica

Abstract

This research work is addressed to study the possibility to implement a Drug Court in Ecuador, under the therapeutic justice focus. In order to do this, it does an analysis from doctrinal criteria of therapeutic justice, as a new form of law enforcement on humanistic bases. It examines its backgrounds and the current situation of this figure. It deepens on the review of all referred to Drug Courts, starting from its historical stages. It studies the experiences on Drug Courts in the United States, their expansion to other countries, their presence in Latin America, especially, their performance in Chile. Besides it determines the therapeutic justice focus present in them. On the same way, it makes a sketch of the Ecuadorian context. It allows to know and determine the possibility of implanting a Drug Court in the country. This is made from the study of the current situation of trafficking and consuming of drug nationwide. It delimits functions and policies of the public institutions dedicated to treat drug consumption. Likewise, it studies the current regulations related to the issue, its relation regarding to therapeutic justice, and it evaluates the real possibility of the implantation of a Drug Court in Ecuador, directed to treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of drug violators.