Yucatan as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in Mexico

Project Author
Issue Date
2022-04
Authors
Mattiace, Shannan
Ley, Sandra
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Embargo
First Reader
Additional Readers
Keywords
Criminal violence , Yucatán , Security , Police , Drugs
Abstract
Yucatan state's homicide level has remained low and steady for decades and criminal violence activity is low, even while crime rates in much of the rest of the country have increased since 2006. In this research note, we examine five main theoretical explanations for Yucatan's relative containment of violence: criminal competition, protection networks and party alternation, vertical partisan fragmentation, interagency coordination, and social cohesion among the Indigenous population. We find that in Yucatan, interagency coordination is a key explanatory variable, along with cooperation around security between Partido Revolucionario Institucional and Partido Accion Nacional governments and among federal and state authorities.
Description
Chair
Major
Department
International Studies
Political Science
Recorder
License
Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Citation
Mattiace, S., & Ley, S. (2022). Yucatán as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in México. Journal of Politics in Latin America, 14(1), 103–119. https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X221079636
Version
Published article
Honors
Publisher
Sage Publications LTD
Series