Mexico’s insecurity crisis during the past decade has drawn attention to the country’s public security and justice institutions. Although professionalizing and democratizing these forces with very low levels of social trust has been attempted, the achievement of that aim faces, amongst other obstacles, different levels of popular support to authoritarian practices to fight crime. In this particular context, it is interesting to know Mexicans’ opinions and attitudes regarding torture and other measures violating human rights. Using the 2011 National Survey of Constitutional Culture as well as a 2015 original survey on the Perception of the Practice of Torture, this study analyzes the conditions for supporting exceptional measures and shows h...
How can societies restrain their coercive institutions and transition to a more humane criminal just...
<p>Global economic conditions exert pressure on states, particularly for those who are linked to fre...
The situation in Mexico differs substantially from other forms of violence in the Latin American reg...
The present work consists in an analysis of the constitutional and legal dispositions related to pub...
The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the responses of citizens that have been a victim ...
In 2011 the Razo Casales brothers were arbitrarily detained in Mexico City, accused of organized cri...
SummaryThe impact of migration and security policies implemented by the Mexican State on the human r...
In the case of Mexico internal forced displacement has emerged as one of the reasons for migration. ...
The main literature that studies collective action of non-governmental human rights organizations pl...
This article has two purposes: the first is to describe the kind of violence that users of public in...
the participation of the armed forces in public security tasks in Mexico can generate several conseq...
En el artículo se analiza la necesidad y pertinencia de una política pública de justicia transiciona...
The criminal system that belongs to a Constitutional State of Law has been built over the respect fo...
In the literature, it is accepted that minimal democracy strengthens the protection of human rights....
The international pressures of the Mérida Plan (1990), the Washington Consensus (1994) and the Judgm...
How can societies restrain their coercive institutions and transition to a more humane criminal just...
<p>Global economic conditions exert pressure on states, particularly for those who are linked to fre...
The situation in Mexico differs substantially from other forms of violence in the Latin American reg...
The present work consists in an analysis of the constitutional and legal dispositions related to pub...
The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the responses of citizens that have been a victim ...
In 2011 the Razo Casales brothers were arbitrarily detained in Mexico City, accused of organized cri...
SummaryThe impact of migration and security policies implemented by the Mexican State on the human r...
In the case of Mexico internal forced displacement has emerged as one of the reasons for migration. ...
The main literature that studies collective action of non-governmental human rights organizations pl...
This article has two purposes: the first is to describe the kind of violence that users of public in...
the participation of the armed forces in public security tasks in Mexico can generate several conseq...
En el artículo se analiza la necesidad y pertinencia de una política pública de justicia transiciona...
The criminal system that belongs to a Constitutional State of Law has been built over the respect fo...
In the literature, it is accepted that minimal democracy strengthens the protection of human rights....
The international pressures of the Mérida Plan (1990), the Washington Consensus (1994) and the Judgm...
How can societies restrain their coercive institutions and transition to a more humane criminal just...
<p>Global economic conditions exert pressure on states, particularly for those who are linked to fre...
The situation in Mexico differs substantially from other forms of violence in the Latin American reg...