From 2019 to 2024, in the Italian press's account of the difficult conditions of minors in Campania, we note a constant recurrence of the terms 'violence', 'camorra', 'babygang', 'weapon', 'knife', 'pistol', 'prison'. This is reported by a research carried out by the Fondazione Polis of the Campania Region, financed by the MUR (within the framework of the Fund for research in the economic and social field) which also takes into account the repercussions that Covid has caused on students and on society.
And precisely in conjunction with the emergency Covid, the research highlighted the weight that the terms 'vulnerability', 'cyberbullying' and 'marginalized' have assumed, which would be attributable to social isolation and the indirect consequences of the pandemic. Another significant fact concerns, in the six years examined, the news reports relating to the word 'school' in the dual meaning of "main garrison for the socialization and education of minors" and, on the other hand, of "space in which socially relevant individual fragilities and criticalities can likely manifest themselves".
And so, even from the terms used, we perceive how the Covid emergency has affected school, social and youth life. The study, in fact, highlights an important fact: if in the two-year period 2019-2020 the associations between terms such as, for example, 'school-violence', 'camorra-violence', 'young-baby gang', 'young-camorra', 'young-prison', "would seem to refer to a journalistic narrative that inevitably inscribes youth distress in a dimension often strongly connected to manifestations of organized crime", starting from the Covid emergency these terms "begin to be contextualized within broader dynamics, in a mix with new, socially significant forms of individual distress and marginalization, including relational".
Article published on March 18, 2025 - 19pm
