Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking
Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexicos people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to mention fail to incorporate the perspectives of its actors in the research development process.
This collection of essays shows how community-based research efforts to examine practices like kidnapping, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, sex work and citizen-led forensics in Mexico can effectively correct methodological and conceptual gaps present in Mexicos dominant organized crime narrative, while providing effective mechanisms to inform academic and policy debates. This easy-to-read volume provides a much-needed reassessment of Mexicos organized crime rhetoric, and also outlines a pathway for those interested in developing critical empirical research on illicit and criminalized practices.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Victims & Offenders.
Gabriella Sanchez is Professor at the Criminal Justice Department, Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas, USA.
Sheldon X. Zhang is Chair and Professor at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies of the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking
Violence, Victimization and Community Action in Mexicos Criminal Landscape
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Gabriella Sanchez and Sheldon X. Zhang
First published 2022
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Contents
Gabriella Sanchez and Sheldon X. Zhang
Caitlyn Yates and Stephanie Leutert
Juliana Vanessa Maldonado Macedo
Cirenia Chvez Villegas
Arely Cruz-Santiago
Gabriella Sanchez and Sheldon X. Zhang
Gabriella Sanchez
Riikka Puttonen and Flavia Romiti
The following chapters were originally published in the journal Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Victimization and Offending in Mexico: The Three-pronged Security Challenges of Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Smuggling
Gabriella Sanchez and Sheldon X. Zhang
Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020), pp. 291294
A Gender Perspective of Migrant Kidnapping in Mexico
Caitlyn Yates and Stephanie Leutert
Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020), pp. 295312
Being a Sex Worker and Migrant in Times of Trafficking: Experiences from the Mexico (Chiapas)Guatemala Border
Juliana Vanessa Maldonado Macedo
Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020), pp. 313329
Poverty, Aspirations, and Organized Crime in Ciudad Jurez, Mexico
Cirenia Chvez Villegas
Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020), pp. 330349
Lists, Maps, and Bones: The Untold Journeys of Citizen-led Forensics in Mexico
Arely Cruz-Santiago
Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020), pp. 350369
In Their Own Words: Children and the Facilitation of Migrant Journeys on the U.S.Mexico Border
Gabriella Sanchez and Sheldon X. Zhang
Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020), pp. 370389
Victimization, Offending and Resistance in Mexico: Toward Critical Discourse and Grounded Methodologies in Organized Crime Research
Gabriella Sanchez
Victims & Offenders, volume 15, issue 3 (2020), pp. 390393
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Cirenia Chvez Villegas, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.
Arely Cruz-Santiago, Egenis Centre at the University of Exeter, Exeter, England, UK.
Stephanie Leutert, Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Juliana Vanessa Maldonado Macedo, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologa Social (CIESAS), and Grupo Latinoamericano de Accin/Anlisis de Mercados Sexuales (GLAM-Sex), Mexico City, Mexico.
Riikka Puttonen, Global Programme on Implementing the Organized Crime Convention, Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria.
Flavia Romiti, Global Programme on Implementing the Organized Crime Convention, Education for Justice initiative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria.
Gabriella Sanchez, Criminal Justice Department, Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas, USA.
Caitlyn Yates
