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Our understanding of violence gains from perspectives contributed by s
everal different disciplines. The differences among goals and points o
f view are often reflected in their vocabularies and interfere in to i
ntegrate the advances by each of them. Three big disciplines have stud
ie violence, those are: Social Sciences, Criminal Justice and most rec
entlly Public Health. This paper discusses the theoric perspectives by
discipline and try to dimensionate the violence problem measured by m
ortality and morbidity by intentional injuries in Mexico.