Victimization among Chilean boys, girls and adolescents in schools

The aim of this article is to analyze the prevalence of the dimensions that characterize violence and victimization, typifying their manifestations on the basis of the observer/victim role, multidimensionality and context. Through an inferential-comparative process with data from the First National Survey of Poly-victimization among Boys, Girls and Adolescents (2017), the transversal victimization and high-level exposure reported by BGA, especially regarding Common Crimes and Indirect Victimization, both at school and in the neighborhood, are exposed. Manifestations that make violence a complex, recurrent and ubiquitous phenomenon, whose approach demands the multidimensionality of agents and perspectives that involve family, neighborhood and school in the search for effective solutions.