Objective:

To unveil non-regulatory vital events as existential life routes in adolescents of the criminal responsibility system of Pasto (Colombia).

Methodology:

The research was oriented from a qualitative paradigm with a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, from a narrative-biographical type study using techniques such as the biogram and life stories.

Results:

It was found in the analysis that the appearance of significant non-normative vital events in the family, the school and the community spheres influence psychosocial and moral development, becoming predictors of antisocial behavior.

Conclusions:

Having experienced non-normative life events such as abandonment, exposure to violence or the lack of sources of support in the family, school or community demonstrate, from the narratives of the participants, the failure of nuclear systems as socializing and stimulation scenarios, and the influence of non-normative vital events in the existential routes associated with criminal behavior.

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