Características socioculturales de los adolescentes privados de la libertad (APL) por los delitos de tenencia y posesión ilícita de drogas a nivel nacional en el periodo enero-agosto de 2013.

Abstract

The investigation is realized on “the sociocultural characteristics of the adolescents deprived of the freedom by the crimes of tenancy and illicit possession of drugs at national level in the period in January - August, 2013”. There is used like theoretical frame the macrosociological position named Critical Criminology, from the vision of Alessandro Baratta (2004), to show up like the Ecuadorian penal system attributes a criminal status principally to the individuals belonging to the most disadvantaged sociocultural strata. There were consulted several bibliographical sources and a secondary source of information, provided by the MJDHC, which included information of 600 adolescents; both men and women, of the 11 CAI that they work at present. With this statistical information there were constructed two indicators, one on the presence of adolescents on the labor market and other on the defects of school socialization, before the revenue to the CAI. With both indicators there was prepared an index of sociocultural precharity that shows percentages superior to 50 % both for men and for women, with a difference of 15 percentage points that accounts for a positive interrelation of these characteristics with the mentioned crime.