Factores sociales determinantes en la reincidencia delictiva en las personas adultas en conflicto con la ley del centro de privación de libertad Azuay N°1, en los pabellones de mediana seguridad, periodo 2017-2020

Abstract

Throughout history, different harmful facts for society have been identified from the social sciences, one of these has endured over time, such as criminal recidivism, in the case of Ecuador this problem affects the general population directly or indirectly, so the research whose objective was to analyze the social determinants in the criminal recidivism of adults in conflict with the law, in the medium security pavilions in the Center of Deprivation of Liberty Azuay N°1, in the period 2017-2020, was raised. The methodology used was quantitative and qualitative, with a descriptive and explanatory method. The population under study was 121 male PACL recidivists selected by probabilistic sampling; for the qualitative research, it was chosen to reach the point of informative saturation, working with 50 PACL recidivists, chosen by convenience. The results reveal the influence of different factors: economic (34%), community and context (22%), family (19%), work (12%), education (7%) and transgenerational (6%) for the recidivism of the PACL, with the economic factor being the most predominant for committing new criminal acts, associated with reasons such as: economic need, low financial resources, obtaining easy money, among others.