Traduzione dallo spagnolo di MARTÌN RÌOS, Il complesso ruolo del principio di opportunità nel processo penale spagnolo a carico di minori

The author (P. Martìn Rìos) examines the various institutions that embody the principle of opportunity – intended as the possibility that the prosecutor should refrain from prosecution, even when the crime can be substantiated – by the juvenile court in a Spanish criminal trial. Such institutions seem to respond to a dualism that is not always easily modular: on the one hand, to protect the interest of the child in trial; on the other hand, to provide an immediate and effective response to the victim of the crime as required by justice.