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Nota: es la versión del inglés del artículo del mismo nombre, se publica en ambos idiomas.The relationships between police and youth have been described so far as a variablethat depends on the set of interactions between citizens and police forces. Even though thereare not many essays about this issue, the existing ones emphasize the lack of cooperation, theabuse by police forces and, to a lesser degree, the formal cooperation between these social actors(Goubaud, 2009; isdp, 2010).This review essay analyzes some of the main trends on thistopic. We emphasize police legitimacy among youth, youth resistance to police abuse, and thecriminalization of youth by police forces and judges. The topic reviewed in this essaydescribes the relationships between police forces and youth in some cities, particularly in urbanneighborhoods and outskirts. Most of these studies agree in the conflictive character ofthese relationships and warn about their implications for the construction of safe cities and therecognition of young people as rights-bearing subjects (isdp, 2010; Vanderschueren et al.,2011). This essay is structured around three recurrent topics in the literature: legitimacy, conflictiveinteraction and police abuse. Most of the studies reviewed are centered on adolescentmen; we have almost not found studies that differentiate between genders. Therefore, to understandthe variations between men and women and it is part of a pending research agenda.

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