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Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking: Violence, Victimization and Community Action in Mexico’s Criminal Landscape book cover

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Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking Violence, Victimization and Community Action in Mexico’s Criminal Landscape

Edited By Gabriella Sanchez, Sheldon X. Zhang Copyright 2022
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge
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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 Mexico’s people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to... Read more

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Biography

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.

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