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We examined the relationship between ethnic identity and social behaviors in 60 indigenous juvenile offenders self-identified as mapuche. Ethnic identity is obtained with IEM scale, social behaviors with CACSA, self-reported and sentenced offenses with EDA and FER-R. The objective was to evaluate the association between the degree of ethnic identity development with presence of antisocial and prosocial behavior. The results indicate that ethnic identity development was related to lesser presence of antisocial behaviors, though no relationship between ethnic identity and prosocial behaviors. The possible relevance of ethnic identity as a protective factor in mapuche youth offenders in specific and in general to adolescents of other indigenous people, becoming a possible focus of intervention to dismiss these behaviors is discussed.