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Revista Criminalidad
Print version ISSN 1794-3108
Abstract
NUNEZ-GARCIA, Jhairo and JIMENEZ, Renata. Personal and family risk factors for delinquency in juvenile residents of the southeast area of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2023, vol.65, n.1, pp.139-149. Epub June 19, 2023. ISSN 1794-3108. https://doi.org/10.47741/17943108.406.
Juvenile delinquency is on the rise, as individual, family and social factors make many children vulnerable to delinquency in adolescence. Individual and family factors are the ones that can most easily be addressed in such a way that an improvement in these factors results in a decrease in the likelihood that children will later engage in delinquent behaviour.
Objective:
to reveal the presence of personal and family risk factors for delinquency in minors living in the southeastern area of the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, by identifying their intellectual level, analysing their emotional intelligence and determining their coping style and how functional their families are.
Sample:
538 children studying at the Ana Josefa Jiménez school in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of primary school.
Results:
more than half of the children have a low level of intelligence, in terms of emotional intelligence the lowest score is self-control, followed by self-awareness and empathy, the coping style used by the majority is undefined, and more than half of the families are functional.
Conclusion:
94% presented risk factors for delinquency, 29% one indicator, 38% two indicators, 23% three indicators and 4% all four indicators, revealing the presence of personal and family risk factors for delinquency in minors living in the southeast area of Santiago de los Caballeros.
Keywords : Juvenile delinquency; adolescents; criminality; emotional intelligence; intellectual capacity; coping; family functionality; childhood.
