Violence: The Experience of Youth from Fresnillo, Mexico

Abstract

According to the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization (PAHO and WHO, 2003), violence is considered as “The intentional use of force or physical power, in fact or threat, against oneself, another person, or a group or community, that causes or has a high probability of causing injury, death, psychological harm, developmental disorders or deprivation.” (p. 5). The objective was document the experience of violence by youths, women and men. We worked with students upper secondary education (87 women and 88 men, 17 to 23 years old), they were given a blank page, ask you write all the situations of violence that you have experienced. With information a content analysis was carried out; some examples of categories: school violence, cyberbullying, sexual violence, community violence, street sexual harassment and others. We verify, the young people suffered violence of several ways, Evangelista (2019) says how the naturalization and normalization of gender violence against woman, for example shows that we lives in a violence contexts