Criminogenic Zones in Mexico City

T IHE ZONES of Mexico City which produce most crime seem to be either central or peripheral. As in North American cities areas with highest percentages of conventional criminality tend to be located near central business district. Perhaps more obviously than in cities of United States home addresses of notorious white-collar criminals are in better residential neighborhoods. Whether incidence of these unrecorded crimes of upper class would show a rate equal to that of recorded crimes of lower class, or whether an index to bribe-taking activities of middle class in areas between would show as high a rate as either, it is not possible to say. It is purpose of this paper to describe and analyze criminogenesis in these central and peripheral zones.' Because of slow growth that typified most of its long history and its more recent rapid development, Mexico City has shifted in basic configuration from plazacentered structure of older Mexican cities toward North American zonal arrangement that reflects outward expansion of central business district.2 The most poverty-stricken of the submerged two-thirds are now largely crowded into older, more congested sections of

Economic geography · Geography · Regional science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Latin American Urban Studies

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