Psychosocial wounds: laceration of organized crime

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https://doi.org/10.22335/rlct.v10i3.640

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Drug trafficking, violence, victims, mental health

Abstract

This article explores the presence of organized crime in the region of the México Central, it’s domain and power in the control strategies that exercise in the different criminal acts at a regional level. At the same time, the criminal activities in which they involve the young people and the psychosocial implications that suffer the victims of the physical violence, symbolic that affect the mental health at the individual and collective level by destroying the ties of identity, solidarity and community of the population in general. The process of construction of this research was under the qualitative methodology approach, with a structural theoretical perspective that analyzes the psychosocial reality where violence is a factor that alters mental health victims who do it and suffer, the results indicate that the young people who were delivered to the trafficking posters are vulnerable and careful, developing criminal activities such as the theft kidnapping and drug dealers actions that exposure them to higher dangers as well as consumers of narcotics and to reproduce greater violence among the population, altering the social stability and mental health of the population throughout the region.

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Author Biography

  • Cecilia López Pozos, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala

    PhD. en Psicología y Antropología Social. Doctora Europeus. Psicoterapeuta, docente e investigadora de la Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, México (UATx). Integrante del Comité Científico de la Revista Visione Latinoamericane. Pertenece a la Academia de psicología Mexicana. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de  Investigación

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Published

2018-07-01

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Research articles / Original articles

How to Cite

Psychosocial wounds: laceration of organized crime. (2018). Revista Logos Ciencia & Tecnología, 10(3), 148-162. https://doi.org/10.22335/rlct.v10i3.640