Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking

Violence, Victimization and Community Action in Mexico’s Criminal Landscape

Gabriella Sanchez, Sheldon X. Zhang (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

110 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-71497-0 (ISBN)

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Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexico’s people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to mention fail to incorporate the perspectives of its actors in the research development process.

This collection of essays shows how community-based research efforts to examine practices like kidnapping, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, sex work and citizen-led forensics in Mexico can effectively correct methodological and conceptual gaps present in Mexico’s dominant organized crime narrative, while providing effective mechanisms to inform academic and policy debates. This easy-to-read volume provides a much-needed re-assessment of Mexico’s organized crime rhetoric, and also outlines a pathway for those interested in developing critical empirical research on illicit and criminalized practices.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Victims & Offenders.

Gabriella Sanchez is Professor at the Criminal Justice Department, Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas, USA. Sheldon X. Zhang is Chair and Professor at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies of the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

1. Women’s Involvement in Migrant Kidnapping in Mexico: A Gender Perspective 2. Being a Sex Worker and Migrant in Times of Trafficking: Experiences from the Mexico (Chiapas)–Guatemala Border 3. Poverty, Aspirations, and Organized Crime Involvement among Adolescent Men in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 4. Lists, Maps, and Bones: The Untold Journeys of Citizen-led Forensics in Mexico 5. In Their Own Words: Boys, Girls and Adolescents as Facilitators of Migrant Smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico Border 6. Victimization, Offending and Resistance in Mexico: Toward Critical Discourse and Grounded Methodologies in Organized Crime Research

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-71497-3 / 0367714973
ISBN-13	978-0-367-71497-0 / 9780367714970
Zustand	Neuware