Trayectoria y reincidencia criminal

Mauricio  Valdivia-Devia; Juan Carlos  Oyanedel Sepúlveda; Antonio  Andrés-Pueyo

doi:10.47741/17943108.35

Authors

Mauricio Valdivia-Devia Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.
Juan Carlos Oyanedel Sepúlveda Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.
Antonio Andrés-Pueyo Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47741/17943108.35

Keywords:

recidivism, criminology, penitentiary centers, criminal man

Abstract

The different criminal trajectories are the result of the changes that occur in a person throughout his life. These deviations are observable through the shape that curves have got with regard to age-crime relationship. The objective of this research is to verify in what way the changes through the life development impact on how and when the criminal behavior is revealed. The criminal trajectories were identified according to the retrospective tort information obtained by interviews and self-reports in a group of 168 prisoners between 18 and 24 years old at the Centro Penitenciario de Jóvenes de Cataluña (Penitentiary Center for Young People in Cataluña). The general curve reproduces the traditional way of the relationship between age and crime. Eight different types of trajectories were identified. Each trajectory represents a different type of criminal. These differences involve not only magnitude(amount of crimes), but also the mode these crimes are presented, or not, through the different moments of the people’s lives, ratifying the tenets of Criminology and Development and the Life-Course.

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Author Biographies

Mauricio Valdivia-Devia, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.

Doctor en Personalidad y Comportamiento. Investigador posdoctoral, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.

Juan Carlos Oyanedel Sepúlveda, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.

Doctor en Derecho. Profesor Asociado, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.

Antonio Andrés-Pueyo, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.

Doctor en Psicología. Director del Grupo de Estudios Avanzados en Violencia (GEAV), Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.

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