Screen LibraryResisting extortion : victims, criminals and states in Latin America /
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 ex...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
|
| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
|
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
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. -- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-240) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108843386 1108843387 9781108824705 1108824706 |
| Index Number: | HV6604 |
| CLC: | D917.3 |
| Call Number: | D917.3/M737 |
| Contents: |
Resistance to criminal extortion: Introduction -- Explaining variation in resistance to criminal extortion -- Everyday resistance and piecemeal vigilantism -- Everyday resistance -- Piecemeal vigilantism -- Collective vigilantism and the co-production of order: Collective vigilantism -- The co-production of order -- Summing Up and Next Steps. |