Mexico--a country whose name has become synonymous with drugs, crime, violence, and insecurity. While global media fascination and academic interest has been fixated on the drug war, however, an equally dangerous threat has emerged--the privatization of the police and security force.

In The Punitive City, Markus-Michael Muller explores how local political dynamics have played a huge part in Mexico's chronic instability. Encompassing a wider context of urbanized neoliberalism and democratization of local politics, Muller closely examines the new reality of extreme security...

Mexico--a country whose name has become synonymous with drugs, crime, violence, and insecurity. While global media fascination and academic interest has been fixated on the drug war, however, an equally dangerous threat has emerged--the privatization of the police and security force.

In The Punitive City, Markus-Michael Muller explores how local political dynamics have played a huge part in Mexico's chronic instability. Encompassing a wider context of urbanized neoliberalism and democratization of local politics, Muller closely examines the new reality of extreme security...