Las brigadas estudiantiles como el recurso para el control social y la prevención del delito en adolescentes ecuatorianos

Abstract

Adolescence is a stage of human life that is very difficult to control, and even more so if the adolescent comes from dysfunctional families or the loneliness of the streets. This indicates that the States must seek the most suitable mechanisms to control that group of adolescents, who leave their homes to seek strong adventures, which calm the impetus of age. In the case of the countries of the Latin American region, the adolescent population rates are very high, as are the rates of single-parent households, where poverty is a basic characteristic, with its consequences of hunger, disease, lack of education, lack of basic services such as water, electricity, urban cleaning service, among others. These environments of strong deficiencies generate a way of life where resentment, powerlessness, apathy, hopelessness and bad instincts come to the fore, but, above all, where crime is emerging as a means to survive and overcome poverty. The States make timid efforts to control this situation through, fundamentally, formal control. Police raids and even militias are taken to the poor neighborhoods to repress adolescents and young people who transgress the law. This research is about this topic entitled "Student brigades as a resource for social control and crime prevention in Ecuadorian adolescents", whose purpose was to present a different alternative of social control, which goes from school, as an institution called to contribute in social peace. The methodology for the study was mixed. Methods such as analysis, synthesis, deductive, inductive and critical were used. The investigation concluded that the student brigades could become a great resource for the social control of adolescents in Ecuador, especially in what corresponds to the control of drug trafficking and robbery.