Organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico : the transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Rosen, Jonathan D. (Author), Zepeda Martínez, Roberto (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Series:	Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:	Drug traffic > Mexico. Drug control > Mexico. Organized crime > Mexico. Organized crime > Mexico > Prevention. Violence > Mexico. Mexico > Politics and government > 2000- Drug control. Drug traffic. Organized crime. Organized crime > Prevention. Politics and government. Violence. Mexico. Since 2000

Table of Contents:

Introduction: historical context and influential factors
Felipe Calderón's war on drugs: an examination of the counternacrotics strategies
The bloodbath: the results of the drug war during the Calderón administration
The Enrique Peña Nieto government: drug war strategies and their consequences
Failed states within Mexico: problematic zones for the Peña Nieto government
Organized crime and the prison system: hell on earth
Reforms, challenges, and policy proposals.