TEORÍAS IMPLÍCITAS SOBRE LA ESTABILIDAD DE LA NATURALEZA HUMANA Y DEL ENTORNO SOCIAL, Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA REINCIDENCIA DELICTIVA EN INTERNOS RECLUIDOS EN EL CENTRO DE CUMPLIMIENTO PENITENCIARIO DE LA COMUNA DE PUNTA ARENAS

This investigation report deals with a possible relation between tortious recidivism and the implicit theories about stability of the human nature and social environment. Its main hypothesis is that having a static view of the human nature and social environment implies higher recidivism rates. We are based on Dweck postulates (1996) which state that those having beliefs regarding that people have a relatively fixed and not malleable central core, think that people do not change, so they behave in relation to this view. In a study carried out in Punta Arenas in