Public policies and safety: Violence as a public matter

• Main Author: David F. Fuentes Romero
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 2003-07-01
• Series: Estudios Fronterizos
• Subjects: violencia urbana; políticas públicas; seguridad pública; prevención y control; participación ciudadana.
• Online Access: http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/249

This article has as purpose to analyze the different actions addresses to control violence, whose focuses its usually being supported by criminology and judicial outlook, besides, the actions addresses to prevent it and they have been supported by epidemiology and public health. These focuses usually begin considerate as opposites positions, providen to solve the violent crime; the first one search the solutions in more police and prisons, the second one on poverty combat. One of conclusions of this article is to considerate that the best solutions to combat crime and violence in the urban centers is through of a really participation on the part of society members to the elaboration of security plans an programs as well as determine action priorities from combined way with the government.