Delito e inseguridad delictiva. Su construcción y consolidación como campo emergente de la geografía. Estudio de caso en una ciudad intermedia, Argentina. Año 2011

Abstract

The present article seeks investigate two different thematic considered as emergent
inside the geographic discipline: the crime and the perception of criminal insecurity
in the frame of the emergent global insecurities. Although the cartographic treatment
of both phenomena has been extensively tackled, the geographic interest arises
recently from the second half of the 20th century, with geographic works that procure
the integral boarding of the variables. In this frame, the investigation focuses firstly
in characterizing and differentiating both phenomena that to simple sight result
similar but with different natures, demonstrations and consequences. Second, the
interest reposes in the study of a concrete case: the one of the city of main Resistance
of the province of the Chaco in the northeast of the Argentinian Republic. It is about
a city considered intermediate regarding population and urban services that denotes
a remarkable spatial segmentation concerning the phenomena in question. The
employed methodology of cuali-quantitative type has consisted in systematic routes
of the city to investigate the urban morphology in all its sectors, implementation of
surveys of perception of insecurity and semiestructured interviews to responsible
civil servants of the public security. The obtained results show the construction of
the spatiality of crime and criminal insecurity in the metropolitan area of Resistence,
from the official perspective of the body responsible for the public safety of the city
and from public view