Mexico's Security Failure: Collapse Into Criminal ViolencePaul Kenny, Mónica Serrano, Arturo Sotomayor 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 Mexicoâe(tm)s security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the bookâe"security failureâe"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. Mexicoâe(tm)s Security Failure is both timely, with Mexico much in the news, but also of lasting value. It explains Mexican insecurity in a full-dimensional manner that hasnâe(tm)t been attempted before. Mexico received much scholarly attention a decade ago with the onset of democratization. Since then, the leading topic has become immigration. However, the security environment compelling many Mexicans to leave has been dramatically understudied. This tightly organized volume begins to correct that gap. |
Contents
Security Failure Versus State Failure | 1 |
The Background | 27 |
An Unending Story | 29 |
19942008 | 54 |
Security Failure at Home | 87 |
3 Arbitrariness and Inefficiency in the Mexican Criminal Justice System | 89 |
The Police in Mexico | 107 |
The Case of Contemporary Mexico | 122 |
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