This research study has been conducted at the Centre for Residential Care Home for Children and Adolescents "San José" INABIF -Trujillo, which aims to present and describe the "FAMILY AND SOCIAL FACTORS DETERMINING THE CRIMINAL ACTS OF DETENTION TEENS", referred by the Family Court of the Superior Court of Justice La Libertad, this work was conducted with a sample of 26 wards between 12 and 18. Note that it has gotten to know through their testimony of life, situations, events, and events that came at a personal level, this way, the thesis quantitative and qualitative data are provided for this purpose various methods, techniques were applied as observation, interviews, surveys, and bibliography used to find information on family and social factors that determine the placement of adolescents in the hostel, and instruments that allowed collecting significant events of the problematic rea...