Punitive City
Subtitle: Privatized Policing and Protection in Neoliberal Mexico
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781783606993
Subjects: Law enforcement; Police, private; Police-community relations; Mexico, social conditions; Crime prevention
Description: In the eyes of the global media, modern Mexico has become synonymous with crime, violence and insecurity. But while media fascination and academic engagement has focused on the drug war, an equally dangerous phenomenon has taken root. In The Punitive City, Markus-Michael Mller argues that what has emerged in Mexico is not just a punitive urban democracy, in which those at the social and political margins face growing violence and exclusion. More alarmingly, it would seem that clientelism in the region is morphing into a private, political protection racket. Vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the implications of a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly widespread across Latin America.