Comparison of School Performance in Offenders a Multidisciplinary View

Abstract

It is important to identify the school performance of the delinquent, from the psychobiological and social aspects; a study carried out in the Preventive and Readaptation Center of Puente Grande, Jalisco (2014-2019 to men and women imprisoned for the crime of robbery and homicide. The methodology used was bibliographic, criminological, sociological and law research; with direct and indirect observation of the inmates; including his life story. Data collection was carried out starting from the prison community universe, using a 25% sample, with psychobiological and socio-legal variables. In the discussion and results of the investigation, school performance is significant in the generation of antisocial and/or criminal behaviors, because school life, there were evasions or school absences, learning problems or failure. In conclusion, the antisocial and/or criminal behavior of delinquents present a low rate of education, primary and/or secondary, or else, they leave their studies truncated for various family and/or economic reasons, which encourages them to carry out activities diverse that originate, in the majority of the occasions, the commission of a crime.