Reinserción en clave personalistaHacia una criminología centrada en el sentido

Abstract

Contemporary models of treatment are rooted in an anthropological view of the offender as a passive subject whose behavior results from the convergence of different criminogenic needs, which operate as risk factors. As a consequence, the interventions of such approaches are focused on deleting them or mitigate their influence. Nonetheless, recent proposals defend a paradigmatic shift, which consists of motivating the individual to abandon their criminal activity by increasing their strengths and personal goals. Such approach can be maximized by logotherapy, the psychotherapy based on the Viktor Frank’s idea that the main human motivation is to experience that its life owns a meaning. We consider that the experience of meaning in life could act as an important protection factor that would lessen the influence of personal risk factors, reducing the ratio of recidivism