Castillo Vásquez Orestes Segundo
DOI: https: //doi.org.10.59427/rcli/2026/v26cs.141-150
To evaluate how illegal mining impacts the effectiveness of criminal investigations in the La Libertad región during 2026. This study employed a quantitative approach, a positivist paradigm, an applied type, an explanatory level, a non-experimental design, and a cross-sectional approach. The population and sample consisted of 32 criminal law specialists from the La Libertad region, selected through census sampling. The data collection technique was a survey, and the instrument was a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and ordinal logistic regression using Nagelkerke’s coefficient were used for data analysis. 69% of respondents strongly agreed with the presence and increase of illegal mining, while 63% considered the impact on the effectiveness of criminal investigations to be favorable. The test of the general hypothesis yielded a significance of p = 0.001, leading to the rejection of the null hypothesis and the acceptance that illegal mining significantly impacts the effectiveness of criminal investigations. Furthermore, Nagelkerke’s coefficient (0.822) showed that illegal mining explains 82.2% of the variability in the effectiveness of criminal investigations. Illegal mining is a determining factor affecting the collection of evidence, police operational intelligence, and prosecutorial-police coordination. Therefore, it is essential to strengthen inter-institutional coordination, optimize criminal investigation mechanisms, and reinforce control strategies to effectively combat this criminal activity in the La Libertad region.
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