Mexico's security failure : collapse into criminal violence / / edited by Paul Kenny and Monica Serrano ; with Arturo Sotomayor
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| Titolo: |
Mexico's security failure : collapse into criminal violence / / edited by Paul Kenny and Monica Serrano ; with Arturo Sotomayor
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.972 |
| Soggetto topico: | Crime - Mexico |
| Violent crimes - Mexico | |
| Internal security - Mexico | |
| Criminal justice, Administration of - Mexico | |
| Altri autori: |
KennyPaul <1959->
SerranoMonica
SotomayorArturo
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| 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, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mexico's security failure |
| ISBN: | 1-280-68355-4 |
| 9786613660497 | |
| 1-136-65051-2 | |
| 0-203-80578-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811890703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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