This line of research seeks to ascertain the perception of legitimacy of juvenile justice by juvenile offenders who have been sentenced to a sanctioning measure. The objective is to analyse the reasons for the obedience of minors to the rules and those underlying the acceptance and enforcement of judicial decisions.

For this purpose, a field work was set in motion in which an ad hoc questionnaire was elaborated, which, after having been submitted to a validation process by experts, was passed on to a sample of offenders who are complying with a sanctioning measure in the province of Malaga. The statistical analysis of the results allows us to analyse the extent to which minors consider the justice applied to them to be legitimate, the understanding of the criminal procedure they are going through and the proposal of various proposals that allow the perception of legitimacy of juvenile justice by its main users to be improved.

The following are some of the results of the different phases of the investigation: