Volume 16, Issue 2 | Trends in Organized Crime

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Volume 16, Issue 2

June 2013

Special Issue: Mexican Cartels

Issue Editor:

Robert J. Bunker

13 articles in this issue

Introduction: the Mexican cartels—organized crime vs. criminal insurgency
Robert J. Bunker
EditorialNotes 28 March 2013 Pages: 129 - 137
Why did Mexico become so violent? A self-reinforcing violent equilibrium caused by competition and enforcement
Viridiana Rios
OriginalPaper 09 August 2012 Pages: 138 - 155
The unintended consequences of kingpin strategies: kidnap rates and the Arellano-Félix Organization
Nathan Jones
OriginalPaper 16 January 2013 Pages: 156 - 176
Organized crime, the militarization of public security, and the debate on the “new” police model in Mexico
Marcos Pablo Moloeznik
OriginalPaper 28 January 2013 Pages: 177 - 194
Drug trafficking, corruption, and violence in Mexico: mapping the linkages
Stephen D. Morris
OriginalPaper 03 March 2013 Pages: 195 - 220
Institutional weakness and organized crime in Mexico: the case of Michoacán
Jerjes Aguirre
Hugo Amador Herrera
OriginalPaper 19 April 2013 Pages: 221 - 238
Ioan Grillo: El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
Diana Washington Valdez
BookReview 04 July 2012 Pages: 239 - 241
Jerry Langton: Gangland: The rise of the Mexican drug cartels from El Paso to Vancouver
Samuel Logan
BookReview 11 July 2012 Pages: 242 - 244
George W. Grayson and Samuel Logan: The executioner’s men: Los Zetas, rogue soldiers, criminal entrepreneurs, and the shadow state they created
Lisa J Campbell
BookReview 05 June 2012 Pages: 245 - 248
Ted Galen Carpenter: Review of The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Drug Violence and the Threat to America
Melissa Ziegler Rogers
BookReview 06 March 2013 Pages: 249 - 250
Paul Rexton Kan: Cartels at War
Irina A. Chindea
BookReview 16 December 2012 Pages: 251 - 254
Sylvia Longmire: Cartel: the coming invasion of Mexico’s drug wars
Paul Rexton Kan
BookReview 23 March 2013 Pages: 255 - 257
Recent publications on organized crime
Klaus von Lampe
Publication Monitor 01 May 2013 Pages: 258 - 263