La delincuencia juvenil y su incidencia en la seguridad pública

Abstract

The present research work covers juvenile delinquency as a social problem, which from the legal point of view includes the development of criminal activities typified as offenses within the criminal law by young people, since it is a phenomenon that develops in groups and is marked by the ages of its members. In Ecuador, the current growth of juvenile delinquency affects the whole society, since there are more and more minors involved in criminal behavior, driven by the criminality and insecurity crisis that the country is going through. Therefore, it is necessary to create public policies to counteract the growth of juvenile delinquency in the territory by addressing the conditions of risk and strengthening the public security system at the national level. For which, a methodological path was undertaken that starts from the descriptive level, with a documentary research modality that required an inductive - deductive method and with a quantitative approach. This approach was based on the application of surveys to legal professionals, with which it was possible to establish their perception of the subject and fulfill the purpose of the research. The nature of the study requires a line of research located in the field of Public Policy, Law and Society. Therefore, the proposal is marked by the creation of a specific citizen security plan for the attention of young people and crime prevention, allowing citizen participation and promoting special crime prevention.