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The psychology of offensive and defensive intergroup violence: Preregistered insights from 58 countries. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kunst JR   +112 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Organized crime, the militarization of public security, and the debate on the “new” police model in Mexico

Trends in Organized Crime, 2013
After the recognition in Mexico of a situation characterized by violence involving both non-state actors (mainly drug lords) and the state apparatus, the present research critically analyzes both the national security strategy adopted by President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa (2006–2012), which is based on the process of the militarization of public ...
Marcos Pablo Moloeznik
exaly   +2 more sources

The Militarization of Public Security in Mexico: A Subnational Analysis from a State (Local) Police Perspective

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2023
Mexico’s public security has suffered a militarization process for at least two decades. Although there is consensus on this trend at the national level in the specialized literature, little research has been conducted on its subnational impact. To amend this gap, this article inquires the way in which militarization has permeated the structure and ...
Sergio Padilla Oñate   +1 more
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Civil-Military Relations and the Militarization of Public Security in Mexico, 1989–2010: Challenges to Democracy

2012
In this chapter, I will argue that the delegation of policy missions to the armed forces and away from civilian agencies transformed the balance of power that had prevailed for decades in the system of civilmilitary relations. As I will show, the initial decision of President Carlos Salinas to use the military instead of the Attorney General’s Office ...
openaire   +1 more source

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