Citizen security reducing juveniles delinquency

Abstract

Citizen security in Peru is affected by problems of a social and political nature that require forceful and corrective actions and measures that allow the reduction of juvenile crime rates in a way that guarantees the progress and development of citizenship. The objective of this research is to analyze how citizen security and the increase in juvenile crime are perceived in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima. This study was carried out under the positivist paradigm, with the hypothetical deductive method, of a correlational descriptive type, of a non-experimentalcross-sectional design, the population was made up of the inhabitants of Las Flores de Lima, located in the southern area of the District of San Juan de Lurigancho, applying a non-probabilistic sampling (51 citizens), the survey technique was applied and as an instrument a questionnaire, as the most important result was that for 86.3% of the population the level of citizen security is low having as the main conclusion that the citizens of said commune have a negative perception of citizen security due to the increase in juvenile delinquency, which is caused by different factors, both family, educational and social.