Colombian Children and Adolescents’ Narratives Accounts about Experiences of Harm (original) (raw)

Abstract

Far too many children and adolescents around the world are growing up in contexts of adversity. Experiences of violence, as well as poverty, injustices, and illegality have been found to be risk factors for social development. For example, research findings show that exposure to violence is related to aggressive behaviors and to the approval of retaliation (e.g., Barkin, Kreiter, & DuRant, 2001; Guerra, Huesmann, & Spindler, 2003; Posada & Wainryb, 2008). The goal of this study was to investigate how Colombian children and adolescents from different schools located in violent areas of Bogota, Colombia, understand and evaluate situations of harm in which they have been involved as victim and as victimizers. Studies with Colombian displaced children and adolescents have shown that they condemn the use of violence and consider it morally wrong and undesirable (Posada, 2008; Posada & Wainryb, 2008). Although they have constructed moral concepts based on concerns about justice, welfare a...

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