This research reveals a concern about the contemporaneous youth and how they deal with the state of urban violence and vulnerability that they are submitted. Studies, researches and written reports developed in the last decade by UNESCO show the youth as a portion of population more vulnerable to problems like violence, unemployment, difficulty of access to good education, and also fail to have access to cultural benefits, leisure and sport. When we focalize on Latin American reality the data show that the youths between 15 and 24 years old belong to the portion of population more exposed to external violence such as homicide and traffic accidents. In Brazil, the total number of homicide occurred in the country approximately 56% happens to young people, it means that more than a half of victims are between 15 and 29 years old. This research started looking after news from newspapers related to situations of homicides and vulnerability within the youth population for taking into account the way statistical data are presented to everyday life. The news not only indicated the reality but were also used as a start point to discuss with the young people from different social classes about their condition in the contemporaneousness. These meetings were called conversations circles. Through the arguments of the young people within the conversation circles, this research aimed to point out the manners the youth undergo the violence, a reality full of risks and vulnerabilities. Finally, the aim of this research was not only to promote a critical thinking about the way the urban violence and vulnerability affect the inner experience of the young people, but also to offer a knowledge to the professionals that work with young people for creating interventions to prevent these problems. The intention of this research was also to promote public policy directed to youth, a field full of disputes which claims for urgent solutions from the professionals of this area of studies.