Abstract

CISNEROS, José Luis  and  CUNJAMA-LOPEZ, Emilio Daniel. The color of fear under the disorder of urban lanscape in Mexico City and the metropolitan zone. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2011, vol.53, n.1, pp.275-292. ISSN 1794-3108.

Results are shown of an exploratory study carried out in 2008 about the perception of insecurity among the residents of Mexico City and the metropolitan zone; the use of color as a technique leading to relate insecurity to the urban space was chosen in order to show that fears do not orbit around the vicinities of daily experiences but, on the contrary, they are nurtured by social imaginaries and urban myths. These lines are intended to explore the perception of insecurity from other latitudes, straying away from traditional victimization studies that, although they have served to study criminality in Mexico, are still very few.

Keywords : Fear; violence; society; victim; criminality measuring.

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