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The dichotomy of security-insecurity in the country is a matter of constant debate about whether the fear of citizens to be victims of violent crime, or dying in the hands of their abusers, it's just a feeling or a reality supported by statistical data. The kids jets, stigma and marginalization, Daniel Miguez and thesis research include insecurity and fear, snapshots of today's society by Miguez together with Alejandro Isla, develop and deepen on one of the themes emerging from the early 90's until today, the main concern of the Argentine.
To study in depth the problem is necessary to go back to the historical moments and economic models that led, in some ways, the rise in unemployment, the naturalization of the abuse of police power over certain sectors of society, impoverishment and poverty in all its expressions. It is also necessary to demystify some of the concepts, strongly installed in the collective imagination, about the motives that lead young people to break the law at an early age.
"In cities that have been traditionally poor, "says Miguez-poverty can not generate crime, since no distances marked between what people want and what they have." But if a country is promoting common goals of consumption, as suggested by the sociologist Robert Merton, and social sectors are suffering increasing restrictions and have no real chance, then the offense can become a social problem and "often the transgression is a way to reach, "albeit temporarily and at a high cost," the goals that society proposes "but is unlikely to achieve through legal channels.
The kids jets, stigma and marginalization is a second edition, revised and updated book of the same name published in 2004, where the author argues that the problem of those who break the law at an early age is linked to "a kind of anomie that has to do with a state of disappointment about work within the family structure. " And even if it is installed with vehemence in the social imagination that "the kids jets" emerging from the naturalization of violence, drug use, material deprivation or lack of bonding, Miguez says that while these are elements of their environment, they are not direct causes of crime.
To support his theory, the author conducted a series of surveys of young people living in marginal situations and were imprisoned at some point in their lives. The responses showed that the situation provokes more suffering to children is being separated from their mothers or siblings when deprived of freedom, coupled with the desire to leave the crime is higher when parents.
The idea that the family environment encourages them to commit crimes is also contradicted by Miguez, since those who are adults and were consummated in criminal activity, do not want their children to reiterate the same pattern, to know the condition inside prisons . Tribes
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The "kids jets" have a structure of armed values \u200b\u200baround relationships with the communities where they live. Are codes of living that respect vehemently and assumptions as set out in the neighborhood not to steal or cause the least harm to their victims, except in situations where their life is at risk. Suggestively, the form of crime is what gives them the ability to command respect within the prisons, where hierarchical and pyramidal structures are becoming of the modus operandi and type of crime they have committed. As detailed
Miguez, who enjoy most senior criminal slang are "jets spout" or stealing at gunpoint without harming their victims. Are located under "pilots" who hardly participate in the robbery directly, then there are the "mules or soldiers, who manage more leadership inside than outside prison.
The "trans" or drug dealers are not welcome in the prisons, as many detainees suffered losses of family members because of drugs. In the worst violators are classified as: not considered real criminals and forced to perform "housekeeping." Finally, there are the "gadgets, giles and Bardera" identified with youth to "steal in the neighborhood, those who kill for a pair of sneakers or charging tolls in the hallways and corners." Both
The kids jets, stigma and marginalization as between insecurity and fear, are based on years of research and provide important information about the relationship between increased crime and the widespread fear of citizens to become victims. The first title, especially, shows a reality that dooms many young people who may have the opportunity to think in a different future.
"A careful assessment of the problem, they say Miguez and Isla-sample that is not only a higher frequency of crime that makes spreading the feeling of insecurity. " In Argentina 70 percent of television programming is filled with news related to the penal system, while the authors suggest that certain types of attacks declined after 2003 but "queen a kind of public awareness on the issue." Their reflections seem convincing, since during the last military dictatorship many felt that living in society safer world, when there were thousands of kidnappings, tortures, murders, thefts and disappearances of children.
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