Underemployment and labor lacking: new social factors in the analysis of the delinquency

Abstract

The economic theory predicts a causal relation between the improvements in the work market and low indexes of delinquency. Thus, often on tends to facing the curves of the evolution of the unemployment rates with those of criminal activity, affirming that both have a parallel evolution; it is to say to less unemployment will be less delinquency. Although, from a theoretical perspective this affirmation could be considered. It is necessary to remark that in the last years, the growth of economic activity, and a reduction of the unemployment rates has not been accompanied by a reduction of the criminal activity, all the opposite, this has increased. In the last ten years the social factors of the delinquency and the deviation has agravated, specially in the young people; after years of persistence of unemployment in lacking segments of population of any formation and degree. The, it seems necessary to incorporate to the analysis of the delincuency factors, not only the unemployment indexes, but those indicators on under employment situations and labor lacking.