Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs, and Trust in Mexico City

ISBN-13: 9780198798460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Rolando Ochoa

Opis

The first authoritative history of kidnapping based on extensive qualitative research of gangs and policing, as well as an analysis of the effect the crime has on how communities experience the city, and the strategies put in place by potential victims to avoid the threat of kidnapping.

O autorze

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.