Imaginarios sociales sobre la delincuencia juvenil en jóvenes de una institución educativa de la ciudad de Cali

Abstract

This degree work focuses on social imaginaries about juvenile delinquency, therefore, the general objective was to identify the social imaginaries that a group of young people have on the incidence of juvenile delinquency in a public educational institution in the city of Cali. For this, the postulates of different authors were taken into account, from the social imaginaries to Cornelius Castoriadis, Charles Taylor, Juan Pintos and José Cegarra, and for the concept of juvenile delinquency, Esperanza Nieto, William Foote, among others, were taken into account. . It should be said that the research has been guided from the cognitive and social perspective, since from these it was possible to solve the problem studied from the postulate of the psychologist Albert Bandura and other authors. Regarding the methodology, a qualitative descriptive study was carried out, designed from the phenomenological proposal in order to find the beliefs, perceptions and meanings of young people about criminal practices. Therefore, a semi-structured interview and a focus group interview were constructed as instruments to be implemented with five participants with ages between 15 and 18 years who resided near the educational institution. Regarding the results, it was found that the imaginaries are built through constant interaction with external agents, in addition to the close experiences they have had with young offenders; Likewise, they interpret crime as a problem of a social and legal nature that is caused by personal, social and family aspects, where they infer that those young people can be identified by means of certain physical characteristics, clothing and others. Finally, they consider that males have a greater tendency to belong to criminal groups than females, due to issues of body build and due to the economic and group needs to be met.