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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 Visualizza cluster
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  
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,
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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
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