Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

One of the most surprising developments in Mexico's transition to democracy is the outbreak of criminal wars and large-scale criminal violence. Why did Mexican drug cartels go to war as the country transitioned away from one-party rule? And why have criminal wars proliferated as democracy has consolidated and elections have become more competitive subnationally? In Votes, Drugs, and Violence, Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley develop a political theory of criminal violence in weak democracies that elucidates how democratic politics and the fragmentation of power fundamentally shape cartels' incentives for war and peace. Drawing on in-depth case studies and statistical analysis spanning more than two decades and multiple levels of government, Trejo and Ley show that electoral competition and partisan conflict were key drivers of the outbreak of Mexico's crime wars, the intensification of violence, and the expansion of war and violence to the spheres of local politics and civil society.

Democracy --- Drug control --- Democratization --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Drug enforcement --- Drug law enforcement --- Drug policy --- Drug traffic --- Drug traffic control --- Drugs --- Narcotics, Control of --- War on drugs --- Vice control --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- History --- Government policy --- Mexico --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Politics and government

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Responding to the harms caused by drugs is one of the most challenging social policy issues of our time. In 'Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law', Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child?s right to protection from drugs under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the relationship between this right and the UN drug control conventions. Adopting a critical approach, the book traces the intersecting histories of the treaties, the role of child rights in global drug policy discourse, and the practice of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It invites us to reflect upon the potential for child rights to provide justification for state actions associated with wider human rights risks.

Children's rights --- Enfants --- Children (International law) --- Child welfare. --- Drug control. --- Lutte antidrogue --- Children --- Droits --- Droit international --- Protection, assistance, etc --- Drug use. --- Usage des drogues --- Social conditions. --- Conditions sociales --- Convention on the Rights of the Child (New York, 20 November 1989) --- Drug control --- Drug enforcement --- Drug law enforcement --- Drug policy --- Drug traffic --- Drug traffic control --- Drugs --- Narcotics, Control of --- War on drugs --- Vice control --- Child protective services --- Child protective services personnel --- CPS (Child protective services) --- Humane societies --- Protection of children --- Family policy --- Public welfare --- Social work with children --- Social work with youth --- Government policy --- Charities --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Protection