In Chile, robbery is the biggest cause of conviction for teenage and young men; many of them identify theft as a work and a significant activity that gives them status. At this time, there are no diagnostic tools that consider the level of identification with this activity and the meaningful context of these young people, which allow the intervention programs to be defined. To respond to this problem, the following investigation characterizes the identity and significant context of young people convicted of theft, based on the creation and validation of a scale that measures the desired identity associated with theft.
The scope of this investigation is to young people serving sentences in the Metropolitan Region. The methodological design is correlational based on a probabilistic sample.
The results showed the presence of young people convicted in the Metropolitan Region who identify with theft as a significant activity, for which they validate themselves and others in their meaningful context; this implies that the justice system and public policy must consider this situation and, in addition, focus on the context as an object of intervention.
Keywords:
teen offenders, identity, well-being, theft, desistance, significant context
Gibbs, C. C. (2021). Significant Context, Desired Identity and Well-being of Young Men Who Validate Theft. Revista De Psicología, 30(1). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2021.54771
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