Juventud, delito y trabajo en San Salvador de Jujuy (Argentina)

Abstract

Juvenile crime and public insecurity in Argentina in recent years, are issues that have been installed on the agenda both politically and scientifically. Some authors propose that these phenomena should be understood as products of the processes of institutional decline that Argentina currently suffers, where they settle a series of transformations of the institutional structures of social tradition wage, which not only affected the domestic economy but a lifestyle organized around work, family and education.

In San Salvador de Jujuy, the lives of families with young criminal offenders appear to be products of these processes, with social conditions of existence near to or in poverty, in some cases with unmet basic needs and belonging to a marginal urban scenery. Furthermore, in mass media, these young people are perceived and represented with prejudices and positions that essentialize the crime, obscuring the social and cultural character of the problem.

Therefore, this paper aims to analyze and discuss the living conditions of this population, along with social exclusion processes in which they are involved with fluctuations with the aim of contributing, by means of a located study, to the understanding of an increasingly important issue.