Trayectoria criminal de mujeres detenidas por Carabineros de Chile en 2007, por violencia intrafamiliar, seguidas hasta 2016

Abstract

The objective of this work is to identify the evolution of criminal behavior throughout the life of a group of 824 women detained by the Chilean police for crimes of domestic violence in 2007. The design is pseudo prospective longitudinal, which allows its follow-up through 9 years, as if it corresponded to a prospective longitudinal study. Any new detention or complaint against them between the years 2007 and 2016 was considered a recidivism. The 60.6% of women reoffended accumulating a total of 2,583 crimes. The criminal trajectories of this population extended well beyond the age of 30, generating an elongated age/crime curve, given that an important part of these women continued committing crimes until they were 40 years old, moving away from the traditional way that the age/crime curve acquires.

Keywords:

violencia intrafamiliar

delincuencia femenina

trayectorias criminales

reincidencia

curva edad y delito

intrafamily violence

female delinquency

criminal trajectories

recidivism

age/crime curve

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