Security in Mexico is still being one of the most problematic issues to address. Incidence of crime statistics and perception of insecurity surveys show that insecurity has not been reduced. In this context,the article shows the complexity of public security as an issue that involves the work of different governments but also different institutions...
This paper analyses the dynamics present in the relations between tourism, security and criminality in a border area, observing how the criminal and inequality dynamics coincide territorially with the spaces destined for visitors. The article investigates the case of Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican economic border center that has a significant flow of dis...
En el marco normativo internacional de los derechos humanos, en particular el elaborado por las Naciones Unidas (ONU) y la organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), las luchas sociales están protegidas por los derechos a la libertad de expresión y el derecho de reunión y asociación pacífica. Las acciones tienen diferentes métodos y formas, pero...
México atraviesa por una crisis de violencia cuyas manifestaciones más evidentes son producto del combate al crimen organizado y al narcotráfico en particular. En este sentido, las últimas administraciones federales han recurrido a las fuerzas armadas para llevar a cabo acciones consideradas propias de la seguridad pública, medida que ha sido objet...
A brief essay that points out some critical readings about the permanence of the authoritarian and military element in the constitutional text of 1988. It presents current situations that demonstrate how this authoritarianism of State continues being practiced. It affirms the urgency to break with this institutional configuration of the securary de...
It is usual to think that firearms cause more damage to people in a crime; however, studies and empirical evidence confirming this are scarce. To answer the question “what weapon causes more social damage?”, we explore three levels of damage to victims: physical injuries, economic losses and, finally, psychological consequences (sense of security a...
The present work consists in an analysis of the constitutional and legal dispositions related to public security, the reforms that elaborate a concept of security a bit more in agreement with the human rights, in contrast with the characteristics that at the moment are subject of debate and criticism by the way in which the Mexican State conducts p...
The purpose of this study is to discuss the risks and limitations of a debate on public security that ignores the economic, political and social dimensions, and to discuss, albeit in an introductory way, the variables that contribute to the overrepresentation of poor and black youths in the statistics on the lethal victims of actions - resulting fr...
Many studies have measured the impact in the dissuasion of the crimes by the installation of cameras of urban video surveillance, but the results thereof are contradictory, also it should be considered to have been a subject little studied in development countries. This article analyzes the capacity of urban cameras to reduce crime in the City of M...
Impunity is increasingly being recognized as a phenomenon that is at once often both the cause and effect of some of the most serious problems in Latin America as well as in other parts of the world. This article examines some of the conceptual and methodological challenges involved in measuring the phenomenon of impunity, with a particular focus o...
