Historias de vida de personas excarceladas por delitos contra la propiedad

Abstract

The purpose of this final degree project is to understand if there is a relationship between the life stories of the people interviewed and the commission of crimes against property, describing the characteristics of the life stories that influence the construction of the identity of two people who are using the probation institute, in which, one of the behavior guidelines, they present themselves at the Institute for Assistance to Prisoners and Released, in the city of General Roca. This work allows us to go beyond those readings that give an ethical and homogeneous response. The character of relevance is given by the absence of previous works of the same nature. The support of this work are the various criminological theories that try to explain, in different ways, the origin of criminal behavior. But all of them have a deterministic approach, from which this thesis intends to move away, safeguarding the particularities of each person. Likewise, authors who wrote about the psychological effects of punishment are taken into account, and their influence on the possibility, or not, of recidivism. The methodology used to achieve the stated objectives is to carry out in-depth interviews, of a semi-structured nature, to form the life stories of both people. From the stories it was possible to obtain a global vision of the people studied, finding common elements, but maintaining the individuality of both interviewees. Some of the common elements that have been observed in the life stories were: family instability, lack of communication, school dropout, problematic substance use, negative experiences in penal establishments, social exclusion in the return to the free environment, elements that they observe as typical of delinquency, and the family as the greatest motivation for not reoffending. Both have themselves to understand the seriousness of the acts committed, and today they choose not to commit a crime again, since they have a family to support and take care for.