Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs, and Trust in Mexico City
Awards:   Winner of Winner of the IASOC Book of the Year Award 2020.
Author:   Rolando Ochoa (Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Sydney)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198798460


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   05 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Winner of the IASOC Book of the Year Award 2020.

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Author:   Rolando Ochoa (Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Sydney)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780198798460


ISBN 10:   0198798466
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   05 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Crime, Trust, and Signalling 2: Crime, Kidnapping, and Liberalization in Mexico in the Late XX and Early XIX Centuries (1994 - 2015) 3: Kidnapping: A History of Gangs, Police, and Policy 4: Survival Strategies: Wealthy Communities React 5: Avoiding an Intimate Crime 6: The Employee's Perspective Conclusion

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Dr. Rolando Ochoa is a Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Sydney. He holds a PhD in Sociology and an MPhil in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Oxford, UK. His interests include the history and political economy of kidnapping in Mexico, the impact of organized crime on fragile/weak states, an organized crime and drug policy in general. He is very interested in how individuals solve issues of trust and reputation in contexts of weak rule of law and inside criminal organizations. He was born in Mexico City and still focuses a significant part of his research there, which he is lately expanding to the Asia Pacific region.

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