SANTOS, José Eduardo Ferreira. Homicide among youngsters in the periphery of Salvador, Bahia: an experience report on violence and human development. Rev. bras. crescimento desenvolv. hum. []. 2007, 17, 3, pp.72-83. ISSN 0104-1282.

This article deals with the results of an ongoing research on juvenile homicides in the periphery of Salvador, Bahia. It approaches the trajectories of murdered adolescents, using an ethnographical methodology composed by the systematic analysis of sections of field diaries collected during many years of field studies on adolescents. The study identifies the repercussions on human development in context of the murdered youths' trajectories, organized in topics: continuum, anticipation, trajectory, genealogy and repercussion. Three cases of murdered youths are presented, along with their repercussions on the family, on the neighborhood and on the murderer. It is concluded that some elements or indexes seen in the adolescent's daily life enable to map the trajectories of marginalization that, once identified, could help to prevent the future murder.

: Homicide; Youngsters; Urban periphery; Life trajectory.

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