Tears, Trauma and Suicide: Everyday Violence among Street Youth in Puebla, Mexico<sup>1</sup>

Jones, Gareth A.; Herrera, Elsa; Benítez, Sarah Thomas de

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“…En premier lieu, les jeunes associés aux gangs sont plus à risque d'être témoins et victimes d'actes de violence (DeLisi et al, 2009). Étant donné que la victimisation à l'adolescence augmente le risque de souffrir de dépression et de troubles anxieux (Hawker et Boulton, 2000;Storch et al, 2005) Valdez, 1994;Jones et al, 2007, Kim et al, 2003, Mrug et Windle, 2010 Ensuite, une seule différence significative est observée entre les deux groupes en ce qui a trait aux troubles intériorisés, soit qu'une proportion plus élevée de participants associés aux gangs de rue que de participants qui n'y sont pas associés rencontrent les critères d'au moins un trouble anxieux. L'association aux gangs de rue demeure d'ailleurs un prédicteur significatif de la présence d'un trouble anxieux chez les jeunes contrevenants lorsque les effets de l'âge des participants, du polymorphisme et de la précocité des premiers délits sont contrôlés.…”

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Les symptômes et les troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue

Morin

Laurier

Simard

2017

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Plusieurs études ont exploré la délinquance perpétrée par les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue. Néanmoins, peu de recherches se sont intéressées à l’ajustement psychologique de ces jeunes. La présente étude a donc pour but de comparer le nombre de symptômes et de troubles intériorisés entre les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue (n = 41/103) et ceux qui n’y sont pas associés (n = 62/103) et d’évaluer si l’association aux gangs de rue est liée significativement aux symptômes et aux troubles intériorisés lorsque les effets de l’âge et de la délinquance sont contrôlés. Cette étude s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une recherche effectuée par Laurier, Guay, Lafortune et Toupin (2015). L’échantillon est composé de 103 jeunes contrevenants masculins âgés de 14 à 20 ans. Les jeunes ont été rencontrés à deux reprises afin d’effectuer la passation des questionnaires. Les résultats indiquent que les jeunes associés aux gangs présentent davantage de symptômes de colère-irritabilité et de dépression-anxiété que les jeunes qui n’y sont pas associés. Ils présentent également un plus grand nombre de symptômes intériorisés et ils sont plus nombreux à présenter au moins un trouble anxieux. L’association aux gangs de rue demeure liée aux symptômes de dépression-anxiété et à la présence d’au moins un trouble anxieux lorsque les effets de l’âge et de la délinquance sont contrôlés. Ces résultats soulignent l’importance du dépistage et du traitement des symptômes et des troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants, particulièrement chez ceux qui sont associés aux gangs de rue.

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Les symptômes et les troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue

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Laurier

Simard

2017

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“…These violent experiences, combined with the constant insecurity of having to struggle to find food and shelter, put these children at substantial risk of developing trauma-related mental disorders ( Veale and Dona, 2003 ; Turnera et al, 2006 ; McManus and Thompson, 2008 ; Cleverleya and Kidd, 2011 ). Several studies suggest that children living in the streets frequently suffer from behavioral and emotional difficulties, such as low-self-esteem, suicidal ideation or even suicidality, alcohol and substance abuse, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Greene et al, 1997 ; Tyler et al, 2003 ; Stewart et al, 2004 ; Thompson et al, 2006 ; Ahmadkhaniha et al, 2007 ; Jones et al, 2007 ; Kerfoot et al, 2007 ; Kidd and Carroll, 2007 ).…”

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A study on reintegration of street children in Burundi: experienced violence and maltreatment are associated with mental health impairments and impeded educational progress

Crombach

Bambonyé²,

Elbert

2014

Front. Psychol.

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Street children are exposed to violence, and subsist in poor and generally precarious conditions. In conflict regions, institutional care facilities are often the only well established way to care for vulnerable children. Providing access to school education is considered to be key to allow successful integration into society. However, adverse effects of psychological disorders may pose another serious obstacle. In semi-structured interviews in a sample of 112 Burundian male youths (mean age = 15.9 years), we assessed exposure to traumatic stressors, regularly and recently occurring violence as well as prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, substance dependence, suicidal risk, and progress in school. Former street children (n = 32) and other vulnerable children (n = 50) in a residential center were compared to children living in the streets (n = 15) or with families (n = 15). While the children living in the center were less regularly exposed to violence and reported less substance dependence than street children, PTSD symptoms were common among the former street children. Furthermore, we provided empirical evidence that for the children living in the center, recently experienced violence -mostly minor physical conflicts, psychological violence and neglect -was associated with increased PTSD symptomatology and impeded progress in school. In a population of children who experienced many traumatic incidences and a lot of violence, even minor violent events may trigger and reinforce PTSD symptoms. Hence controlling exposure to violence and addressing mental ill-health in vulnerable children is mandatory for reintegration.

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“…: 217). Similarly, the mass grave emerges ever so slightly in the work of Jones, Herrera, and de Benítez (2007) about street children and suicide in Puebla, Mexico. While groups of children organize to provide a casket, they are nonetheless confronted by logics of Catholic judgment and burial for the "sin" of killing oneself, which means burial face down in a common grave.…”

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The Potter's Field

Willis

2018

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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I unpack the “potter's field” as an everyday practice and a category, especially as it operates in the material treatment of bodies as a mirror of life. I examine this space of “worthlessness” as it exists in liberal capitalism. From the potter's fields of São Paulo, Brazil, I consider how these are, in fact, mundane mass graves, made politically useful as a means to obscure important bodies alongside those who are, today, the subjects of terror. I then ask how the rise of the uncertified potter's field—a burial field for disposable bodies, not made legal by the state—is inseparable from recent historical and contemporary conditions of political abandonment. The uncertified field is made easy by a politics of abandonment, and becomes useful to state institutions as a material invocation of responsibility, interred elsewhere, while nonetheless advancing a larger logic of governance and political will in our times.

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Tears, Trauma and Suicide: Everyday Violence among Street Youth in Puebla, Mexico¹

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Les symptômes et les troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue

Les symptômes et les troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue

A study on reintegration of street children in Burundi: experienced violence and maltreatment are associated with mental health impairments and impeded educational progress

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Tears, Trauma and Suicide: Everyday Violence among Street Youth in Puebla, Mexico1

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Les symptômes et les troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue

Les symptômes et les troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue

A study on reintegration of street children in Burundi: experienced violence and maltreatment are associated with mental health impairments and impeded educational progress

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