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Speaking at the London School of Economics and Political Science in March 2011, Mexico’s national security spokesman, Alejandro Poiré, identified weak institutional capacity in the judicial sector as the crux of the security crisis that has plagued Mexico since the mid- 1990s. To be sure, the root causes of Mexico’s recent crime and violence are multiple and complex. In addition to increases in common crime resulting from Mexico’s economic woes in recent decades, the country has also suffered from extreme forms of violence associated with clashes among organized crime groups, which became especially severe in the mid-2000s. This is the challenge of criminality to the state—a kind of external challenge—a threat that has grown more severe due in part to the evolution and empowerment of non-state, criminal actors (see also, chapter 5 by Landman in this volume).
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Ingram, M.C., Shirk, D.A. (2012). Building Institutional Capacity in Mexico’s Criminal Justice System. In: Philip, G., Berruecos, S. (eds) Mexico’s Struggle for Public Security. Studies of The Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034052_7
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