Hábitat y vulnerabilidad, el papel de la violencia
Creators: name: Jiménez-García, Williams
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160201 Causes and Prevention of Crime
subject: FOS: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This research aims to analytically demonstrate the relationship between habitat, vulnerability and violence. In a country that experiences the dire condition of being violent, suffer the scourges of drug trafficking and armed conflict, these investigations have the potential to change scenarios of the many ways in which Colombians themselves are described, and it is precisely there, where the contribution of the present study to the hard-won identity that has cost so much to build Colombian society.This research proposes the hypothesis that violence conditions the way of life of the residents of a territorial unit, in this case the ''comunas'' in a way that this new social phenomenon printed new symbols in the way of life, it determines the pattern of the social relationships, it influences the construction, transformation and consolidation of the social, public and intimate spaces that people consider as their habitat in areas related to social aspects, public safety and the level of social cohesion in neighborhoods, communities and cities.To prove the hypothesis, diverse methodological tools of disciplines such as social sciences and criminology were used, in particular those related to ethnography, physical -spatial criminal analysis (in a wider sense, environmental criminology) and the use of vulnerability as an approach allowing to analyze the criminal behavior in a space of specific context.In this sense, the use of techniques such as participant observation, survey and statistical analysis, stories and chronicles of life of some key informants in the study, and the theoretical -conceptual - methodological support of coercive institutions such as Colombia National Police.The application of these diverse techniques together with the theoretical development and the qualitative and quantitative analysis allowed to obtain results in the field to test the hypothesis and contribute to the knowledge of criminological behavior issues related to the spatial distribution of crime, social cohesion in the neighborhood and the level of interagency trust of victims and victimizers.Similarly, from the perspective of vulnerability (and larger risk), offers a methodological path to address anthropogenic threats, particularly those related to continuous systemic violence, to address the anthropic threats like that afflicting latin america urban centers in the contemporary era. Analyzing this way the violence, it is possible to approach the reality of the social phenomenon as the villagers build and strengthen their habitat from the use of force and the establishment of violence as a valid peer mediation mechanism for either establish control of the territories and both economic and legal transactions, or to adapt to it and form a series of actions that lead to mitigate the effects of constraint wills, specifically ignoring and blending into the environment.Finally it should be noted that the present research seeks to place in the plane of the academic discussion of concepts, methods and social contexts of topics of habitat, vulnerability and violence, precisely recognizing the ungraspable, imponderable and indescribable of this complex reality, dynamic and changing.