This research is aimed at exploring the risk factors of the personal, family and social context, present in the life history of people deprived of liberty, men and women sentenced for crimes against property. For this purpose, a non-experimental, cross-sectional, quantitative empirical study with a descriptive-comparative scope was designed. For the investigation, a sample of inmates was selected, made up of sentenced persons from the ordinary closed regime prisons Lurigancho and Callao, as well as a sample of inmates from the common Chorrillos penitentiary, making a total of 358 people. The data collection instrument was developed based on the psychosocial file applicable by the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru and was applied by direct interview with each member of the sample. The data were processed using the SPSS statistical program. The results show that both female and male ...

Objective. To identify and analyze the clinical characteristics of personality in persons sentenced for crimes of sexualassault against children and adolescents. Methods. A non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with 157 male inmates in the Miguel Castro Castro penitentiary, Lima, Peru. A sociodemographic form and the Millon Multiaxial Clinical Inventory II (MCMI-II) were used to determine clinical personality diagnoses. Results.At the time of the study, the sentenced persons had sentences ranging from 12 years to life imprisonment (N = 24.8;SD = 9.58), were aged between 19 and 66 years (M = 38.6; SD = 10.69) and most of them had completed high school (43.3%). The clinical personality diagnoses in moderate and high levels of those sentenced for the crime of rape against children were compulsive, dependent, narcissistic, histrionic, paranoid, drug dependence an...