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Crime and violence are the main social problem in Mexico. Insecurityaffects important aspects of daily life: family, social relations, economy, education,work, health and leisure activities. We present a statistical analysis of different lifestyle aspects of young men in Mexico. This variables were previously reported bythe government in ECOPRED 2014, a survey of national coverage performed by theNational Institute of Statistics. The main contribution of this paper is a revealing dataanalysis based on a combination of linear discriminant scores and Mutual PrincipalComponents where the area under the ROC curve works as the link between bothtechniques. It describes the relation between the life style of young men and their riskof incurring in criminal behavior. This risk is measured in terms of a uni dimensionallinear score with high discrimination capacity.

delincuency, antisocial behavior, discrimination, mutual PCA, ROC curves