This article presents some reflections about the social role of the victims of violence in production of fear and insurance, and its influences in the repressive mechanisms in the state criminal justice. We performed a systematic literature search seeking proposals about the creation of a psychopathology related with the victimhood, the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). More than a simple characterization of the disorder, our aim was to investigate what practices create it, what effects produces in the medicalization of life and the actual public security policies in our society.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; medicalization; violence; criminalization; public policy