Punitive Entanglements
The "War on Gangs" and the Making of a Transnational Penal Apparatus in the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markus M Müller (0000-0002-8811-0225, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author), Markus-Michael Müller |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 696-727 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2015.1036416 |
| OpenAlex | W1771440720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
This paper analyses the export-import business of penal policies that accompanies the “war on transnational street gangs” between the United States and Central America. It argues that far from being a unidirectional export of punitive politics from the United States towards Central America, many of these punitive exports travel “back home”. This creates transnational punitive entanglements that contribute to the contingent convergence of punitive geopolitics and domestic politics in the guise of a transnational penal apparatus that integrates law enforcement agencies and military forces, securocratic epistemic communities and national political entrepreneurs into a functionally cohesive but decentred transnational security structure engaged in a multilayered punitive containment of transnational street gangs across the Americas
Criminology · Enforcement · Geopolitics · Law enforcement · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Punitive damages · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |