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Book Synopsis Crime and the Economy in Mexican States by : Ms.Concha Verdugo Yepes
Download or read book Crime and the Economy in Mexican States written by Ms.Concha Verdugo Yepes and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the transmission of crime shocks to the economy in a sample of 32 Mexican states over the period from 1993 to 2012. The paper uses a panel structural VAR approach which accounts for the heterogeneity of the dynamic state level responses in GDP, FDI and international migration flows, and measures the transmission via the impulse response of homicide rates. The approach also allows the study of the pattern of economic responses among states. In particular, the percentage of GDP devoted to new construction and the perception of public security are characteristics that are shown to be associated with the sign and magnitude of the responses of economic variables to crime shocks.
Book Synopsis Organized Crime in Mexico by : Cameron H. Holmes
Download or read book Organized Crime in Mexico written by Cameron H. Holmes and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized Crime in Mexico takes a hard look at the dire implications of the pervasive and powerful criminal enterprises in northern Mexico, comparing and contrasting the present threat to past issues, including drug and human smuggling during the latter half of the twentieth century. Criminal organizations operating in Mexico and the United States threaten the economic well-being of North America as well as the democratic freedoms of our neighbor to the south. Cameron H. Holmes, an experienced organized-crime prosecutor and anti-money laundering expert, shows how this shift in criminal activity is extremely damaging to North American economies and explains that in order to halt this economic erosion, U.S. policy requires a new strategy, changes in thinking, and new and increased countermeasures. Strategically, we have light-years to travel and little time to do it. Without intervention criminal activity will strangle legitimate business, degrade the Mexican economy, and because the United States itself is so intimately affected, undermine the U.S. economy in turn. Continued prosperity in both countries depends on our joint success in controlling these criminal enterprises. Organized Crime in Mexico examines the new diversification and strategies of organized criminal groups, suggests a series of countermeasures, and places these issues in a global context. What is transpiring in Mexico is part of a larger international problem, and criminal enterprises currently pose new and consistent threats to economies around the world.
Book Synopsis The Effect of Drug-related Violence on Mexico's Economy by : David Saucedo De La Fuente
Download or read book The Effect of Drug-related Violence on Mexico's Economy written by David Saucedo De La Fuente and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico’s War on Drugs strategy against drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) initiated in 2006 by the federal government has contributed significantly to increase the levels of crime and violence positioning Mexico as a reference of rising homicide rates in Latin America during the last decade. The range of homicide rate across Mexico’s territory was from 1.58 to 26.91 in 2007 while in 2011 went from 2.29 to approximately 87 homicides per 100,000 population. What is the effect of drug-related violence on Mexico’s economy? Has drug-related violence created spillover effects across Mexico’s states? Unlike many publications on this subject, I am looking to contribute to the research literature by exploring the effects of the drug-related violence on Mexico’s economy, specifically the engines of Mexico’s economic growth: labor productivity, greenfield investment, and household remittances. In doing so, each chapter includes the review of relevant literature, methodology, econometric specification, and an exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA). Shedding light on the presence of spatial autocorrelation in the data generating process is important in order to adopt a spatial econometric approach. The main results suggest that i) Mexico’s War on Drugs strategy not only has intensified levels of violence, but violence has also significantly spread through Mexico’s states: both the global and local Moran’s I statistics show growing trends across space and time particularly over the period 2006-2011; ii) the Bivariate Moran’s I estimations in chapter two indicate that law enforcement in a specific state, specifically marijuana seizures and guns seizures are associated with drug-related violence in neighboring states; iii) GMM results in chapter two also indicate that drug-related violence not only exerts a negative and significant impact on labor productivity, but there is also evidence of the negative spillover effects of drug-related crimes on regional GDP per worker; iv) the NBGLMM regression results in chapter three show that the homicide rate per 100,000 population, as a proxy of violent crime at the sub-national level, exerts a significant and negative impact on greenfield FDI projects in the host economy; v) ESF regression results in chapter four report that household remittances have a statistically significant impact on reducing homicide crime per 100,000 population; and vi) geographic location matters: the spatial distribution of employment location quotients suggests that greenfield FDI projects are mainly located in host economies characterized by high intensity in secondary and tertiary economic activities; low labor productivity levels are mainly located in southern states; and above-average homicide rates have been spreading across Mexico’s states, particularly clustering in northern border states suggesting that the effects of drug-related violence on Mexico’s economic growth are relatively higher in northern border states than central and southern states.
Book Synopsis Strengthening Evidence-based Policy Making on Security and Justice in Mexico by : OECD
Download or read book Strengthening Evidence-based Policy Making on Security and Justice in Mexico written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides indicators on security and justice at the sub-national level for Mexico and compares them to a sample of indicators from other OECD countries.
Book Synopsis The State and Security in Mexico by : Brian Bow
Download or read book The State and Security in Mexico written by Brian Bow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the millennium, Mexico seemed to have finally found its path to political and economic modernization; a state which had been deeply embedded in society was being pulled out, with new political leaders allowing market forces to play a greater role in guiding the nation’s economic development, and allowing old patron-client networks to crumble. At the same time, many hoped that political and legal reforms would increase the state’s capacity to provide prosperity, security, and equity for its citizens. In the midst of this historic transformation, however, Mexico was confronted with an urgent new policy challenge. Internationally recognized experts from the academic and think-tank communities in the United States, Mexico, and Canada consider the origins of the current crisis in Mexico, and the nature and effectiveness of the Calderón government’s response. Simply not another book on North American regional security, this volume uses Joel Migdal’s concept of "the state in society" to provide a refreshingly clear and accessible exploration of political change in the developing world. The engagement with the US and Canada gives the reader a chance to observe the dynamics of persuasion across the developmental divide. Four key questions structure the study: What does the ongoing security crisis in Mexico tell us about the changing role of the state in society there? What does the changing role of the state tell us about the nature (and intractability) of the crisis? How has the transition to democracy affected the links between the state and organized crime in Mexico, and the state’s capacity to contain non-state challengers? What kinds of political and legal reforms are called for, and what effects can we expect them to have on the extent and intensity of violence in Mexico? No other study comprehensively uncovers new conceptual and theoretical insights in each of these areas whilst offering some practical guidance for policy-makers and publics seeking to understand these urgent and complex challenges.
Book Synopsis Organized Crime and Democratic Governability by : John Bailey
Download or read book Organized Crime and Democratic Governability written by John Bailey and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2001-02-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States-Mexico border zone is one of the busiest and most dangerous in the world. NAFTA and rapid industrialization on the Mexican side have brought trade, travel, migration, and consequently, organized crime and corruption to the region on an unprecedented scale. Until recently, crime at the border was viewed as a local law enforcement problem with drug trafficking—a matter of "beefing" up police and "hardening" the border. At the turn of the century, that limited perception has changed. The range of criminal activity at the border now extends beyond drugs to include smuggling of arms, people, vehicles, financial instruments, environmentally dangerous substances, endangered species, and archeological objects. Such widespread trafficking involves complex, high-level criminal-political alliances that local lawenforcement alone can't address. Researchers of the region, as well as officials from both capitals, now see the border as a set of systemic problems that threaten the economic, political, and social health of their countries as a whole. Organized Crime and Democratic Governability brings together scholars and specialists, including current and former government officials, from both sides of the border to trace the history and define the reality of this situation. Their diverse perspectives place the issue of organized crime in historical, political, economic, and cultural contexts unattainable by single-author studies. Contributors examine broad issues related to the political systems of both countries, as well as the specific actors—crime gangs, government officials, prosecutors, police, and the military—involved in the ongoing drama of the border. Editors Bailey and Godson provide an interpretive frame, a "continuum of governability," that will guide researchers and policymakers toward defining goals and solutions to the complex problem that, along with a border, the United States and Mexico now share.
Book Synopsis Mexico’s Struggle for Public Security by : G. Philip
Download or read book Mexico’s Struggle for Public Security written by G. Philip and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results. This book considers the issue from a variety of viewpoints. The essential argument is that the organized crime is best combated by institutional reforms directed at strengthening the rule of law rather than by a heavy reliance on armed force.
Book Synopsis Assessing the Impacts of Labor Market and Deterrence Variables on Crime Rates in Mexico by : Yu Liu
Download or read book Assessing the Impacts of Labor Market and Deterrence Variables on Crime Rates in Mexico written by Yu Liu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many studies examine the relationship between crime rates and various economic and/or sociodemographic variables in high income countries, but similar efforts for middle and low income countries are less common. Utilizing an 8-year panel data sample for all 32 states in Mexico, this study assesses the impact of Mexican labor market and deterrence variables on various Mexican crime rates. The principal results indicate that: (1) State gross domestic product (GDP) per capita has ambiguous effect on crime rates under different conditions. Both wages and unemployment rates are negatively linked with crime rates. (2) Although the Mexican judicial and public security systems are widely believed to be ineffective, increased federal police forces and incarceration rates are associated with lower crime rates, but higher public security expenditure per capita is associated with higher crime rates. (3) The impacts from labor market and deterrence variables presented in (1) and (2) continue to hold under the Fox administration as well as for non-border states. Their respective impacts diminish, however, under the Calderon administration as well as for border states because of the small number of observations. Overall, the results indicate that increasing average wages, federal police forces, and incarceration rates would have significant impacts on reducing crime rates in Mexican states.
Book Synopsis Mexico's Security Failure by : Paul Kenny
Download or read book Mexico's Security Failure written by Paul Kenny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, with Mexico much in the news, but also of lasting value. It explains Mexican insecurity in a full-dimensional manner that hasn’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.
Download or read book Intimate Crimes written by Rolando Ochoa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world. Intimate Crimes outlines the history of kidnapping in Mexico City by constructing a narrative of this crime based on extensive qualitative research on gangs, policing and other crime-related policies. The book also analyses the effect of kidnapping - and crime more broadly - on how communities experience the city, as well as the strategies put in place by potential kidnapping victims to deal with the threat of being victimised by someone close to them, a common occurrence in Mexico City, including analysing the processes through which household employees are screened and selected in Mexican households. The book presents the results of over a year of fieldwork in Mexico, and creates a qualitative database of news reports for the material used in its writing. It includes material from over 70 interviews with kidnapping victims, their families, potential victims and their employees, police, prosecutors, government agents, journalists and other informants. Intimate Crimes contributes to existing criminological literature on Mexico and Latin America by making an important contribution to a subject of the outmost regional importance. The book also contributes to broader criminological topics on the rule of law, criminal gangs, policing and the impact of economic development on crime. It also builds on the existing literature on empirical work on trust and signalling, particularly as it relates to contexts of weak rule of law and low state protection.
Book Synopsis The Illicit Global Economy and State Power by : H. Richard Friman
Download or read book The Illicit Global Economy and State Power written by H. Richard Friman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, are proliferating on a global scale. This volume explores the selective nature of the state's retreat, persistence and reassertion in relation to the illicit global economy.
Download or read book City of Suspects written by Pablo Piccato and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners’ letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the paradoxes of repressive policies toward crime, the impact of social rebellion on patterns of common crime, and the role of urban communities in dealing with transgression on the margins of the judical system. By investigating postrevolutionary examples of corruption and organized crime, Piccato shines light on the historical foundations of a social problem that remains the main concern of Mexico City today. Emphasizing the social construction of crime and the way it was interpreted within the moral economy of the urban poor, he describes the capital city during the early twentieth century as a contested territory in which a growing population of urban poor had to negotiate the use of public spaces with more powerful citizens and the police. Probing official discourse on deviance, Piccato reveals how the nineteenth-century rise of positivist criminology—which asserted that criminals could be readily distinguished from the normal population based on psychological and physical traits—was used to lend scientific legitimacy to class stratifications and to criminalize working-class culture. Furthermore, he argues, the authorities’ emphasis on punishment, isolation, and stigmatization effectively created cadres of professional criminals, reshaping crime into a more dangerous problem for all inhabitants of the capital. This unique investigation into crime in Mexico City will interest Latin Americanists, sociologists, and historians of twentieth-century Mexican history.
Book Synopsis Two Nations Indivisible by : Shannon K. O'Neil
Download or read book Two Nations Indivisible written by Shannon K. O'Neil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords. Without a doubt, the drug war is real. In the last six years, over 60,000 people have been murdered in narco-related crimes. But, there is far more to Mexico's story than this gruesome narrative would suggest. While thugs have been grabbing the headlines, Mexico has undergone an unprecedented and under-publicized political, economic, and social transformation. In her groundbreaking book, Two Nations Indivisible, Shannon K. O'Neil argues that the United States is making a grave mistake by focusing on the politics of antagonism toward Mexico. Rather, we should wake up to the revolution of prosperity now unfolding there. The news that isn't being reported is that, over the last decade, Mexico has become a real democracy, providing its citizens a greater voice and opportunities to succeed on their own side of the border. Armed with higher levels of education, upwardly-mobile men and women have been working their way out of poverty, building the largest, most stable middle class in Mexico's history. This is the Mexico Americans need to get to know. Now more than ever, the two countries are indivisible. It is past time for the U.S. to forge a new relationship with its southern neighbor. Because in no uncertain terms, our future depends on it.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Crime by : Rafael Di Tella
Download or read book The Economics of Crime written by Rafael Di Tella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of policies designed to tackle it. The Economics of Crime is a powerful corrective to this academic blind spot and makes an important contribution to the current debate on causes and solutions by applying lessons learned from recent developments in the economics of crime. The Economics of Crime addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of kidnappings on investment, mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between poverty and crime. Utilizining research from within and without Latin America, this book illustrates the broad range of approaches that have been efficacious in studying crime in both developing and developed nations. The Economics of Crime is a vital text for researchers, policymakers, and students of both crime and of Latin American economic policy.
Book Synopsis Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by : John P. Sullivan
Download or read book Mexico's Criminal Insurgency written by John P. Sullivan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of crime wars and criminal insurgencies—21st century war and conflict waged by non-state entities— and the impact this new form of warfare is having on states. For this, we embrace them and have established the new SWJ El Centro forum to further promote their professionalism and scholarship. Dave Dilegge SWJ Editor-in-Chief
Book Synopsis The Mexican Economy by : Enrique Cárdenas
Download or read book The Mexican Economy written by Enrique Cárdenas and published by World Economies. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico is the fifteenth largest economy in the world and Latin America's biggest exporter and importer. There are, however, two Mexicos: one more prosperous, advanced and modern, the other poor, isolated and backward, and this polarization characterizes much of Mexico's recent economic development. This book charts Mexico's modern economic history as well as its current structure, its regional differences, and the productivity gaps and economic challenges it faces. It examines the relative robustness of recent macroeconomic fundamentals alongside industry-level economic trends, especially those sectors dependent on exports through the North American free trade agreement. The book covers demographic trends, urbanization, education and health, and migration to the North. The economic impact of Mexico's long border with the United States is given particular focus. As are drugs, organized crime and the country's entrenched corruption. The book offers a concise and up to date analysis of Mexico's economic development and the country's political economy suitable for a range of courses in Latin American studies and Development Studies.
Book Synopsis Uneven Landscapes of Violence by : Hepzibah Muñoz Martínez
Download or read book Uneven Landscapes of Violence written by Hepzibah Muñoz Martínez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Uneven Landscapes of Violence, Muñoz Martínez argues that the nexus of criminality, illegality and violence are an integral and defining features of neo-liberal state formation in Mexico after 2000.
