<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Violence has become a daily occurrence among the young people of Latin American and Mexican cities, so much so that its levels can seriously affect the integral development of adolescents, one of the largest populations in Mexico. <strong>Method:</strong> We worked with high school students from 13 to 16 years old from three cities of the country (Cuernavaca, Xochimilco and Ixtapaluca) who answered the Questionnaire of Exposure to Insecurity and Violence for Adolescents (Gómez &amp; Lucio, 2015), were searched differences by city and by dimension (direct victim / witness) using one-way ANOVA, differences by sex were also calculated using t-test for independent samples and crosstabs analysis. <strong>Results:</strong> adolescents in the city of Cuernavaca reported a greater incidence of exposure to violence in the community in both dimensions, and there were no differences between men and women when reporting violence in any dimension. <strong>Discussion:</strong> Different studies have indicated the high rate of social violence in Cuernavaca and Morelos overview, the results of the present study confirmed that in this city it surpassed the other entities, which confirms that it can indicate that it is indeed so, on the other hand it was found that women reported violence in both dimensions in the same way as men, which contradicts most of the literature, so it is necessary to investigate in that regard.</p>