Risk/Danger, at the service of Pbulic Health and Safety

Abstract

The purpose of this assignments is to reflect on how violence as a public health problem has been assumed by the State not from social security, but from public security and, in particular from a risk approach that has not only proved insufficient to address the serious problem that violence means as a social problem, but has even been pointed out as a counterproductive factor in the pursuit of its eradication. It is warned as public health and public safety by using the risk approach to understand the problem of violence and explain it through behaviors typified as “risky” moved towards groups considered risky, thereby justifying the public security policies that promote the presence of police and military elements in the territory, and contribute on the invisibility of other forms of violence, such as economic or state violence. Elements that justify the permanence of a “state of exception”.