Understanding Mexico’s Drug Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Shirk (0000-0002-9433-5009, University of San Diego), David Shirk (University of San Diego), Joel Wallman (The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1348-1376 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002715587049 |
| OpenAlex | W2286828867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 94 |
| References cited | 27 |
A dramatic increase in criminal violence in Mexico since 2007 has resulted in an estimated 60,000–70,000 “additional” homicides, often of an especially brutal form, related to drug trafficking and other organized-crime activities. This violence has been accompanied by a steep increase in rates of kidnapping and extortion and has targeted participants in the narcotics trade as well as government officials, journalists, and civil society activists. Despite the magnitude of the violence and enormous public concern about it, scholarly literature on this topic has been scant. This issue offers some of the most promising analyses conducted thus far on the trends in violence and their causes, focusing largely, though not exclusively, on the role Mexico’s government has played in the business of illegal drugs and the violence that accompanies it. In this introduction, we discuss the challenge of deriving reliable statistics on drug-related violence, its spatial and temporal patterns, prevailing explanations, its relationship to organized crime in general, and differences between this violence and substate political violence
Civil society · Crime statistics · Criminology · Drug trafficking · Extortion · Government (linguistics · Organised crime · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law
Does Exposure to Community Violence Predict Higher Suicide Rates? The Case of Mexico
The Art of Trafficking
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?
Perceptions of Danger
Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics
Beyond the immediate effects of income inequality on homicide rates
The diversification of drug trafficking organizations
Do high value target strikes reduce cartel-related violence? An empirical assessment of crime trends in Tijuana, Mexico
Spatial competition and violence among organized crime groups in Mexico
Homicidal violence and state capacity in Latin America
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization
High‐Profile Attacks, Regimes of Criminal Governance and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico
Opportunities and Alliances
Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset
Chasing Cocaine along the Caribbean Coast
Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America
Homicidal Ecologies
Votes, Drugs, and Violence
Silence or alignment. Organized crime and government as primary definers of news in Mexico
Devenir habitante de calle en una ciudad fronteriza del norte de México
Confronting Crime by Ourselves
Wages, integration, migration motivation
Perceived police performance, racial experiences, and trust in local government
Media effects on public displays of brutality
Fear of Nonviolent Organizing in Mexico's Criminal Conflict
Understanding support for tough‐on‐crime policies in Latin America
Limitations and inconsistencies of using the four waves of modern terrorism to understand Latin America
Organized crime after earthquakes
Los carteles son la ley”
The spatial diffusion of homicide in Mexico City
The vanishing independent
Narco-violence , forced displacement, and sex trafficking
Architectures, spaces, and territories of illicit drug trafficking in Colombia and Mexico
On the Multiple Sources of Violence in Drug Markets
The good, the bad and the ugly
Years of Solitude Revisited
How to periodize a violent conflict
Plata o plomo
Integridad institucional, democracia electoral y crimen organizado
Criminal Violence, the State, and Society
Tangential Movements
Do earthquakes increase or decrease crime
Local Homicide and Children’s Cognitive Performance
Remittances and Protests against Crime in Mexico
What factors drive trust in police after civil wars
Precipitating state failure
Conceptualising criminal wars in Latin America
Staying the course in Mexico
Does “green gold” breed bloody violence? The effect of export shocks on criminal violence in Mexico
Explaining the American crisis of policing
Parasites, Colluders, and Adversaries
Violence and Children’s Education
Criminal Conflicts and the Killing of Law Enforcement Officers in Mexico
From Cocaine to Avocados
Land titling and political alternation
Crime, Fear, and Mental Health in Mexico
From Social Proximity to Policy Preferences
Hybrid Governance in Northeastern Mexico
To Vote or Not to Vote
Border Militias
Criminal Politics
Federal Distributive Politics and the Unequal Distribution of Violence
The Old Rules No Longer Apply
Authoritarian Recall
The Impact of Law Enforcement Centralisation and Professionalisation on Public Opinion of the Mexican Police
The Limits of Material Benefits
Cohabitation with criminals
Violence, Peace, and Government Intervention in Illicit Drug Markets
Are voters too afraid to tackle corruption? Survey and experimental evidence from Mexico
To Kill and Tell? State Power, Criminal Competition, and Drug Violence
Transferring Violence? Mafia Killings in Nontraditional Areas
The Contagion of Drug Violence
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico
A Bargaining Theory of Criminal War
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control
Living in Fear
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion
Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence
Drugs and War
Not just money. How organised crime, violence, and insecurity are shaping emigration in Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala
The conceptual puzzle of violent non-state actors in Latin America
The 3×1 Programme and criminal violence in Mexico
Return migration, crime, and electoral engagement in Mexico
High-risk participation
Organized criminal violence and territorial control
Family remittances and vigilantism in Mexico
Crime, remittances, and presidential approval in Mexico
Sending money home in times of crime
Cultivating Violence
Strategic Resources for Drug Trafficking Organizations and the Geography of Violence
Extreme Violence and Weight-Related Outcomes in Mexican Adults
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City
Violence in Latin America
Illicit markets and violence
States of Violence
Political Corruption in Mexico
Drug War Zone
Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War
Does illegality breed violence? Drug trafficking and state-sponsored protection rackets
Systemic violence in drug markets
Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Drug War Politics
Logics of Violence in Criminal War
How Civil Wars Help Explain Organized Crime—and How They Do Not
To Kill and Tell? State Power, Criminal Competition, and Drug Violence
The Beheading of Criminal Organizations and the Dynamics of Violence in Mexico
The Contagion of Drug Violence
How Government Coordination Controlled Organized Crime
The Decline of Elite Homicide
The Terrorism Debate Over Mexican Drug Trafficking Violence
Crime as Social Control
Introducing the UCDP Non-State Conflict Dataset
Transnational Crime and Public Security
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| Citations per year | 8,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 92 |