The figures that are not seen: Victimization, perception of security and fear of crime in three municipalities of the state Merida

This work was developed using a quantitative methodology, with a simple and stratified random sampling. The results can be divided into two aspects: the first, the subjective construction, both in a sense of security and fear of crime, which were found negative in the sample, being differentiated in the three municipalities under study, but distinguished in the most rural of the three, in which the sense of security was better than in the other two, but the fear of the crime was greater than in them. The second aspect, the objective construction showed a considerably high victimization figure when compared with other nations and previous studies in the same context, saying that the victimizations consisted of robberies, occurred during the day, being executed with violence and firearms, by young men; which, in addition, were not reported by a significant proportion of the victims, noting that there were no variables that correlated with victimization. The main conclusion aims to consider that the subjective construction of security is constructed by individuals depending more on the interactive context with the spaces in which they develop their daily social dynamics, than by the distinctive characteristics of the urban and rural area in the area. that lives.