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VALENZUELA-AGUILERA, Alfonso. Perception and vulnerability: adolescents in disrupted peripheral territories. Polis [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.44, pp.203-235. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682016000200010.

In this paper we assess the role that territoriality has as a fundamental condition for citizen security from the perspective of young people living in disrupted peripheral territories in the metropolitan area of Cuernavaca in Morelos, Mexico. For this purpose the First Survey on Perception of Insecurity in Technical High Schools, in order to detect the perception that students have on security issues, was designed. Taking as a point of departure the quest for identity in adolescents by means of the articulating features of geographical space, our research identifies, through the construction of five indicators, the mechanisms of appropriation of the territory as a strategy to maintain social control of urban space.

Palabras clave : Perception; vulnerability; adolescents; safety; violence.

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