Restorative justice: a valid option to mitigate gender and partner violence in Chile

Abstract

This article intends to analyze under what conditions restorative justice, through its most used mechanism - the criminal mediation -, is a valid option to mitigate and prevent the consequences of the crimes of gender violence and partners in Chile, improving security. future to the victims, for which qualitative, exploratory-descriptive method has been used, which allows to identify the factors that make possible the hindrance to incorporation of restorative mechanisms in treatment of these crimes, within the criminal system of accusation on Chilean continental court, concluding that, according to the offer carries out   this   punitive   guidance   system and the   results obtained with respect to criminal offenses it has not been possible to obtain the expected preventive fines and even if remedial solutions have been provided in accordance with the expectations of  victims. By the way, there is a steady increase in the rate of crimes of hazards, injuries and femicides, therefore it seems necessary to offer a comprehensive and systemic approach, which prevents the escalation of violence and considers intimate aspects and relationships between men and women. As such, restorative mechanisms, like criminal mediation, emerge as an intra-judicial and sustainable option in criminal proceedings, serving as a complement and plausible alternative of reparation.