Abstract

TERAN, Iris E. Life stories teens and violent community young offenders: Aragua state. Year 2012. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.2, pp.59-73. ISSN 1690-3293.

We conducted a qualitative type research, hermeneutics, in adolescents and young violent offenders who reside in communities with a high incidence of mortality from violent events in the state of Aragua. who were interviewed, in order to track social representations that could approach the understanding of the social dynamics of their life-world and identifying contextual factors that might be influencing, in a complex way, on the generation of violent behavior Venezuelan adolescents in families, in order to identify from the heuristic value systems and meanings that govern everyday discourse in which young people develop Aragua violent criminals. It was found that the family, at school and the street are social spaces where social representations are forged that reproduce violence.

Keywords : Social representations; urban violence; young offenders.

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