Experiences, sensations and demands of citizen (in)security: recent complex configurations in Argentina

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Published: Jun 24, 2013
Issue: Vol. 15 No. 1 (2013)
Section Foreign author


Keywords: insecurity fear punitive rigor poverty politics.

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Daniel Pedro Míguez
CONICET-FLACSO-UNCBPA

Abstract

Over the last decades the issue of insecurity due to an increase in crime rates and its possible impact on the stability of Latin American democracies has sparked an ongoing debate. In this context, the present article studies, for the case of Argentina, how experiences and sensations of insecurity may be articulated to demands for greater punitive rigor. The analysis is based on two types of information. Initially, data from international surveys such as Latinoabarometer are considered. Then, these are compared to data from prolonged on-site observations in a poor neighborhood of a mid-sized Argentine city. The combination of these different types of data shows the complexity of the process. Contrary to what is often assumed, experiences and sensations of insecurity do not lineally lead to demands for greater punitive rigor. The way in which social actors elaborate their experiences of insecurity is highly situational and not systematic. We have found that there is not necessarily a consistent process of ‘meaning construction’ that articulates experiences and sensations of insecurity with political demands.

Author Biography

Daniel Pedro Míguez, CONICET-FLACSO-UNCBPA

Dr. en Antropologia y Sociología del desarrollo

Investigador del CONICET

FLACSO Y UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES.

How to Cite
Míguez, D. P. (2013). Experiences, sensations and demands of citizen (in)security: recent complex configurations in Argentina. Estudios Socio-Jurídicos, 15(1), 53–84. Retrieved from https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/sociojuridicos/article/view/2401
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