VII. PERCEPCIONES DE LA INSEGURIDAD DELICTIVA Y EL DELITO EN BARRANQUILLA

Abstract

To approach multidisciplinary phenomena, the theoretical and methodological tools
must be of the same nature; Sociology allows a great field of action in the face of these
conditions, which in Barraquilla socially and spatially construct criminal insecurity and
crime.
Venezuelan migration and the uncertainty of citizen insecurity, plus the processes of
sociality and sociability that combine them, are matters to be analyzed in this work, for this
the description of citizen perception and that of the organizations responsible for citizen
security in Barranquilla was revealed through the implementation of a mixed methodological
design, which included surveys, interviews, content analysis, statistical and bibliographic
sources.
When exhausting the implementation of the designed tools, it is highlighted that the
migratory phenomenon has been entrenched within the social representations that personify
the Venezuelan population as threatening alterities, a consequence that contrasts with the
absence of quantifiable certainty; At the same time, as a self-regulatory mechanism, the
location of criminal insecurity and crime are the strategic way to contain social concerns in
topophobic places that have configured a criminogenic chronology for the night, the
selfperception of suffering a type of crime is exponentially beaten by vast individual
experimentation. Ultimately, this is what makes the problem so complex and preeminent in
nowdays societies.