Juarez City.— In five years, the crime of rape went from the third to the first cause for which adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 serve a sentence in the Comprehensive Criminal Justice System for Adolescents (SIJPA).
According to the National Survey of Adolescents in the Justice System of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), in 2017 the main crime sentenced in this section of the population was robbery, with 37.8 percent, while the cases of rape corresponded to 12.5 percent.
almost double
For the past year, convictions for the crime of rape had an increase of almost double and were in first place, with a 23 percent prevalence. They are followed by convictions for robbery in various modalities, with 19 percent, and homicide in third place, with 18.6 percent, the survey indicates.
In addition, of the adolescents in the SIJPA who were prosecuted, 22.5 percent were initially prosecuted for the crime of rape and 21.8 percent for robbery, the data shows.
During 2022, of the population of adolescents in the Comprehensive Criminal Justice System that was prosecuted, 72.1 percent only had a public defender during the judicial process. On the other hand, 17.7 percent of the population with a sanction measure only had a private defense attorney; Of these, 93.1 percent declared that the person who defended them explained the facts for which they were accused.
In this context, of the adolescents in the SIJPA with a sanction measure, less than half felt very heard by the judge during their trial. On the other hand, only 36.2 percent considered that their sanction measure was very fair.
They learn in their internment
Of the population of adolescents in the SIJPA with an internment measure who carried out socio-educational activities, 77.3 percent attended a workshop to learn a trade. Of this percentage, 29.6 percent attended the workshop for the design and manufacture of furniture and other wooden articles, and 21 percent took the food production workshop.
The survey shows that of the population of adolescents in the SIJPA with detention measures, 32 percent were victims of some crime within the detention center in the last year. Of this percentage, 80 percent were victims of theft of personal belongings and 34.2 percent of injuries.
The three most common (2022)
23% of the convictions among this population were for the crime of rape
19% was constituted by robbery in various modalities, with which it was in second place
18.6% were hospitalized for homicide, according to the Inegi survey
