Social Backwardness in Minors Deprived of Liberty for Crimes in the Northwest of México

This study aims to identify the social characteristics of social backwardness in a population of minors who participated in criminal activities in the state of Sonora, Mexico; under the hypothesis that juvenile delinquency is correlated with precarious social conditions. With descriptive statistics methodology and contingency analysis, information
was extracted in Socioeconomic Studies of 273 male minors, deprived of liberty in a Specialized Detention Center for Adolescents. The results illustrate that the critical
age for committing crimes is between 16 and 17 years old; drug crimes and home burglary are the most common; the population does not have a basic scholar level; it
is dedicated to construction and day labor jobs, traditionally with low and precarious salaries; they live in overcrowded, disintegrated and non-functional family contexts,
where illegal drug consumption habits exist.