Resisting Extortion

AvEduardo Moncada

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Criminal extortion is an understudied, but widespread and severe problem in Latin America. In states that cannot or choose not to uphold the rule of law, victims are often seen as helpless in the face of powerful criminals. However, even under such difficult circumstances, victims resist criminal extortion in surprisingly different ways. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in violent localities in Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico, Moncada weaves together interviews, focus groups, and participatory drawing exercises to explain why victims pursue distinct strategies to resist criminal extortion. The analysis traces and compares processes that lead to individual acts of everyday resistance; sporadic killings by ad hoc groups of victims and police; institutionalized and sustained collective vigilantism; and coordination between victims and states to co-produce order in ways that both strengthen and undermine the rule of law. This book offers valuable new insights into the broader politics of crime and the state.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-06
Mått:160 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108843386

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Eduardo Moncada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America (2016) and co-editor of Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics (2019). His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program and the National Academy of Sciences.

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'Resisting Extortion offers an empirically rich analysis of how everyday citizens in Latin America seek to reduce the burdens of crime on their lives through different forms of resistance. Drawing on fascinating case studies in Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia this book offers important comparative insights into how Latin Americans confront crime amid state inefficacy and corruption. This work opens theoretical pathways and will provide important new avenues of thinking to students and scholars of Latin America as well as policymakers seeking to address some of the greatest challenges affecting the region.' Enrique Desmond Arias, Marxe Chair of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Resistance to criminal extortion: 1. Introduction; 2. Explaining variation in resistance to criminal extortion; Part II. Everyday resistance and piecemeal vigilantism; 3. Everyday resistance; 4. Piecemeal vigilantism; Part III. Collective vigilantism and the co-production of order: 5. Collective vigilantism; 6. The co-production of order; 7. Summing Up and Next Steps.