Organized crime & democratic governability : Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands
著者
書誌事項
Organized crime & democratic governability : Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands
（Pitt Latin American series）
University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000
- : cloth
- : paper
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
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: cloth ISBN 9780822941460
内容説明
The US-Mexico border zone in now one of the most dangerous in the world. The range of criminal activity at the border now extends beyond drugs to include the smuggling of arms, people, vehicles, and environmentally dangerous substances. This title defines the reality of the situation.
- 巻冊次
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: paper ISBN 9780822957584
内容説明
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 \u201cbeefing\u201d up police and \u201chardening\u201d 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\u2019t 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 \u201ccontinuum of governability,\u201d 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.
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