The Medellín model and its approach to security problems: Social urbanism and situational crime prevention, 2008-2015 El modelo Medellín y su enfoque de los problemas de seguridad: Urbanismo social y prevención situacional del delito, 2008-2015

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the Medellín model and its influence on the configuration of the logic of treatment of security problems in the city between 2008 and 2015. Methodologically, the text makes an interpretation of the problem, as well as the varied Qualitative and quantitative information collected, product of a document review exercise focused mainly on official documents, academic research, and some interviews. Although there are different positions on what has been called the “Medellín model” for security management, in general, it is possible to postulate that this strategy, centered on social urban planning and situational crime prevention, was constituted as an intervention innovative preventive nature to improve security in public spaces and in some areas of the city, reducing, in part, the historical social debt for important areas of the city.