Militarizing public security in Mexico, a form of penal populism

• In Event: Political and Social Discourses about Crime and Justice Panel 3

Abstract

In the last fifteen years, the Mexican Government has implemented actions tending to the alleged reduction of the insecurity and the criminal conducts that has shown in the country; one of these actions, has been consisted the militarization of the public security focusing it, specifically to deal with the organized crime, however, the results that have been obtained do not reflect the long-awaited decrease, but rather flagrant violations of the human rights, violations of our constitution and violations of the international treaties with the "strong hand" impossed; all of this together represents characteristics of the penal populism category, which is why We consider that this trend of militarization of public security is a form of it. To arrive at such a conclusion, in this research, the documentary research technique based on the method of critical analysis has been implemented, also developing the deductive method, the analysis of various documents reviewed for this purpose.

Authors

• Axel Francisco Orozco Torres, Universidad de Gudalajara

• Ramón Gerardo Navejas Padilla, Universidad de Guadalajara