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This paper study factors related with the perception of insecurity in residents of priority geographical polygons in Acapulco, by descriptive and correlational statistical analysis. Data was collected through a survey following a representative sampling within each polygon, for testing mean differences. The results revealed that the perception of insecurity is associated with schooling, confidence in the police, criminal incidence, the existence of street gangs, and the polygon of residence. Also was found a weak correlation, but statistically significant, between the perception of insecurity and the proportion of modified activities due to fear of crime, which in turn is associated with sex, age group, criminal incidence, and its polygon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to develop some sociological explanations of violence by the Mexican government combat organized crime call. For this reason, the Mexican state violence is regarded as the introduction of new rules aimed at the non-recognition of the informal practices of organized groups that control, for example, so lucrative drug trafficking. However, the state order is imposed in a context of social vulnerability, defined as a weakness of citizenship, for example, civil and social rights. Especially because the idea of public safety state, based on technological methods of control of the collective integrations in public spaces, undetermined civil rights and at the sometime, it has failed to consider that social policies were state protections that prevent the spread of poverty and misery, considered as another cause of the proliferation of illegal activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper builds an interpretation of violence in the State of Mexico. Part of recognizing that the continuing conflict/violence/crime is likely to be canceled to the extent that society generates a public moral with conflictuality minimums, and police to engage with society. From the construction of the two components may create conditions for building a democratic and peace society in which the state maintains a monopoly on force. The inputs of this work was the focus groups of police and representatives of civil society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]