Abstract

QUITIAN-BUSTOS, Ruth Mery; URIBE-MONTANA, Sandra Liliana  and  PACHON-MUNOZ, William. Criminal behaviour and personality in adolescents at risk of social exclusion in an educational institution. LogosCyT [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.2, pp.57-69.  Epub Oct 05, 2020. ISSN 2145-594X.  https://doi.org/10.22335/rlct.v12i2.1162.

Adolescence is the stage of life with the greatest potential for psychosocial development in young people, but it also presents many risks associated with criminal behaviour. The objective of this article is to identify personality factors, expected concerns, and clinical syndromes from the evaluation of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory scale as a predictor of criminal behaviour in adolescents from an educational institution in Bogotá. Descriptive observational field research was carried out, in which the scale was applied to a sample of 53 schoolchildren between the ages of 13 and 19, selected for convenience, because they are part of the counselling and psychological support for behaviours that go against the coexistence manual and school regulations. In the personality patterns, there were minimal differences between the two groups of students under and over 16 years of age, with the highest scores for the group under 16 years of age on the submissive scales with 51 (± 8), conformist with 50 (± 10), histrionic with 34 (± 12) and egocentric (± 12). For the expected concerns scale, it was observed that the highest averages were in the group over 16 years of age, in the categories of body disapproval with 12 (± 9), social insensitivity with 27 (± 8), family discord with 16 (± 7), identity diffusion with 18 (± 8), self-deviation with 28 (± 14), group insecurity with 14 (± 7) and child abuse with 10 (± 7). Regarding the presence of clinical syndromes, significantly high scores are presented for the two groups in the anxiety category with an average value of 34 (± 6), followed by predisposition to crime with an average of 20.42 (± 5), and depressive affect with a mean of 19 (± 11), as possible risk predictors. The MACI results allowed identifying factors that predispose behaviour contrary to coexistence.

Keywords : criminal conduct; personality; adolescents.

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