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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811890703321

Titolo

Mexico's security failure : collapse into criminal violence / / edited by Paul Kenny and Monica Serrano ; with Arturo Sotomayor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-280-68355-4

9786613660497

1-136-65051-2

0-203-80578-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KennyPaul <1959->

SerranoMonica

SotomayorArturo

Disciplina

364.972

Soggetti

Crime - Mexico

Violent crimes - Mexico

Internal security - Mexico

Criminal justice, Administration of - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Mexico's Security Failure: Collapse into Criminal Violence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Security Failure Versus State Failure; Part I: The Background; 1. The Mexican State and Organized Crime: An Unending Story; 2. Transition to Dystopia: 1994-2008; Part II: Security Failure at Home; 3. Arbitrariness and Inefficiency in the Mexican Criminal Justice System; 4. Accounting for the Unaccountable: The Police in Mexico; 5. Security Versus Human Rights: The Case of Contemporary Mexico; Part III: ...and Abroad

6. Drug Trafficking and United States-Mexico Relations: Causes of Conflict7. Mexico's War on Terrorism: Rhetoric and Reality; 8. The Mesoamerican Dilemma: External Insecurity, Internal Vulnerability; Conclusion: Authoritarian Evolution; About the Authors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat



to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impact of Mexico's security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the book-security failure-brings these perspectives together on an intermestic level of analysis. It is a view that runs counter to the standard emphasis on the external, trans-national nature of criminal threats to a largely inert state.Mexico's Security Failure is both timely,