书目名称 | Murder and Politics in Mexico |
副标题 | Political Killings i |
编辑 | Sara Schatz |
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概述 | The only currently existing monograph on political assassination in Mexico.Explores the effect of democratization on crime and criminal justice in Mexico, with applications throughout Latin America.Th |
丛书名称 | Studies of Organized Crime |
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描述 | Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred. This has several consequences for Mexican politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political killings that are systematic and invasive are involved, this could indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. This book analyzes several dimensions regarding impunity and political crime, more specifically, the political killings of members of the PRD in the post-1988 period in Mexico. The main argument proposed in this book is that impunity for political killings is a structured system requiring one central precondition, namely the failure of the legal system to function as a system of restraint for killings. Dr Schatz’s research finds that political assassinations are indeed rational, targeted actions but |
出版日期 | Textbook 2011 |
关键词 | Democratization; International Studies; Latin America; Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD); Polit |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8068-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4614-2808-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-8068-7Series ISSN 1571-5493 |
issn_series | 1571-5493 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 |