Abstract

SANABRIA RINCON**, Julieth Catherine. Caracterización psicosocial de latinoamericanos internos en el Centro de Inserción Social de Málaga – España. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.15, n.1, pp.103-112. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-9998.2019.0015.08.

The purpose of the present investigation is to perform psychosocial characterization of people of Latin American origin who have committed crimes in Spain and who are internal in the Center of Social Insertion of the community of Andalusia in the city of Malaga; for this, mixed (qualitative and quantitative) methodology of empirical and inductive type was used, where different tools were used to collect information, including semi-structured interviews, participant observation, the application of psychological tests to evaluate the constructs of self-esteem and impulsivity and a survey; Subsequently, the information collected on the following topics was analyzed and processed: sociodemographic characteristics, cultural and social dynamics, family composition, physical and psychological health, self-esteem, impulsivity, motivation to commit a crime, escalation of analogous, antisocial and criminal behaviors, support networks or socio - family ties, factors of the social insertion process, recidivism and life project. As a result, similarities were obtained in cultural, social and geographical factors among others, however, it was determined that there is not a single factor that explains the criminal behavior.

Keywords : psychosocial characteristics; criminal behavior; impulsivity; self-esteem; social insertion; recidivism.

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