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Author Schatz, Sara, 1963- author.

Title Impact of organized crime on murder of law enforcement personnel at the U.S.-Mexican Border / Sara Schatz
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 114 pages) : illustrations
Series SpringerBriefs in Sociology, 2212-6368
SpringerBriefs in sociology, 2212-6368
Contents Preface -- Chapter 1. Backdrop to the Assassination of Local Law Enforcement -- Chapter 2. Rubs Outs in the Territory: Killing Police Chiefs and Top-Level Commanders in Chihuahua -- Chapter 3. Weapons and Methods of Attack as a Tactical Advantage -- Chapter 4. Conclusion
Summary This brief fills a gap in the studies of organized crime in Mexico (Kan 2012, RĂ­os 2011, Dell 2011) by documenting and mapping the post-2008 assassination of Mexican border police chiefs. It traces out a 'systematic' of law-enforcement assassination in Northern Tier Mexico, showing how the selective, often sequential, hits by cartels on chiefs in border towns and along key drug-trafficking corridors has proven an effective strategy by organized crime elements to serve several goals: (1) to retaliate for federal, state and local prosecution, (2) to try and neutralize police chiefs, (3) to achieve intermittent local governance and/or to seed corrupt police chiefs at the municipal level, and, (4) to reduce local governmental capacity to obtain greater freedom for movement of goods. It is argued that the tactical advantage of organized crime elements gives them relatively easy physical access to law enforcement targets and thus is thus one prime element facilitating the use of assassination as a strategy. U.S. and Mexican legal, political and judicial institutions have not been able to adequately restrict opportunity for law-enforcement assassinations. The inability to reduce access to weapons and officials, to increase security for police personnel, to reduce corruption and punish offenders sets the stage for the assassination of local law enforcement. Yet, it is the goals of organized crime elements (to clear drug-smuggling routes and to try and gain more pliant governance at the municipal level) that ultimately motivate such killings
Analysis sociologie
sociology
politicologie
political science
internationaal recht
international law
privaatrecht
private law
strafrecht
criminal law
misdaad
crime
sociale wetenschappen
social sciences
Social Sciences (General)
Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 30, 2014)
Subject Police murders -- Mexican-American Border Region
Organized crime -- United States.
Law enforcement -- Mexican-American Border Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Law enforcement
Organized crime
Police murders
Mexico.
Borders.
Drugs.
Organized crime.
Law enforcement.
Targeted killings.
Transnational crime.
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401792493
9401792496