How Did Things Get So Bad So Quickly? An Assessment of the Initial Conditions of the War Against Organized Crime in Mexico

摘要: Objectives: This study explores the initial conditions of current war against organized crime in Mexico. The theoretical framework is institutional anomie theory (IAT). Composite measures were used to summarize local for occurrence deaths by gang execution, confrontation, and aggressions authority. Spatial temporal elements included assess validity approach. Evidence presented here suggests that Mexican states significantly differed their have occurred. Also, although trends executions confrontations been slowing down, authority are speeding up considerably. evidence corroborates IAT. However, significance direction relationships among correlates depended upon type death.