Violence and criminal order

The case of Ciudad Juarez

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11670516
AutoresMichael Jerome Wolff (0000-0001-9274-3503, Western Washington University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen39
Número10
Páginas1465-1483
Fecha de publicación2018-04-10
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2018.1459019
OpenAlexW2883225040
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas12

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, suffered an explosion of criminal violence between 2008 and 2012 that cost the lives of more than ten thousand people, earning it notoriety as the world’s “murder capital.” Just a few years later, however, levels of violence had dropped back to pre-2008 levels, decreasing by more than 85 percent. Existing political, economic, and sociological theories provide compelling narratives about the origins of Mexico’s drug-related violence, but have much more difficulty explaining why violence might suddenly decrease to normal levels again. They also fail to explain how violence itself shapes mechanisms of formal and informal order, often leaving institutional legacies that can be both negative and positive. Based on research conducted since 2008, this paper argues that criminal violence in Ciudad Juarez, while initially begetting only more violence, gradually reconstituted the criminal order in such a way that peaceful interaction among competing criminal groups became possible

Capital (architecture · Capital city · Criminal behavior · Criminology · Economics · Geography · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Social order · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law

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