In November 1975, the tripartite agreement in which Spain divided the Western Sahara between Morocco and Mauritania forced more than 200,000 Saharawi inhabitants, persecuted by the Moroccan and Mauritanian armies, to abandon their homes and flee to the Algerian desert. The displaced Saharawis arrived in the Tindouf desert and formed the refugee camps. Under these conditions, rejection or abandonment of education begins to be observed at an early age; leaving more free time for children and adolescents, which favors the appearance of criminal behavior, which develops to form organized groups that can operate across the borders of countries where the law is not respected. To prevent the aggravation of this problem, it is urgent to act preventively, this motivates the present investigation carried out in the Tindouf refugee camps, of which an approach to the current state of the problem is presented in this work. Theoretical methods as a fundamental empirical method, the in-depth interview, applied to the professionals involved in the treatment of juvenile delinquency, allowed us to reach conclusions, obtaining that the condition of refuge has led to an increase in juvenile delinquency that It must be treated urgently through alternatives that combine prevention, education and employment.