Overview
- Places contemporary violence in Mexico in historical perspective
- Offers a comprehensive, empirical snapshot of Mexico’s process to settle accounts with past atrocity
- Presents an original, critical view of human rights discourses
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict (PSCAC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico. It explores how the Mexican democratic regime dealt with the grave human rights violations perpetrated by security forces during the authoritarian era (1929-2000) through a Special Prosecutor’s Office. It offers a complete account of the diverse factors that facilitated the emergence (and policing) of Mexico's transitional justice process. Whilst transitional justice should contribute to the advancement of liberal democracy and, consequently, generate the following benefits: truth, justice, political reconciliation, peace, this book argues that Mexico is a case of transitional injustice. It is an example of how in some societies transitional justice mechanisms are intentionally implemented in ways that, instead of generating justice, produce impunity. It makes important contributions to some of the broader debates addressed by scholars on transitional justice and gives them reason to re-examine transitional justice processes in other countries in a new light.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Javier Trevino-Rangel is Associate Professor in the Centre of Research and Literary Studies of Aguascalientes at the University of the Arts of Aguascalientes, Mexico. He’s also visiting fellow in the Department of Sociology at LSE, UK. He has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK, and Assistant Professor in the Drugs Policy Programme at the Center of Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Aguascalientes, Mexico. His research interests include: human rights discourses and atrocities, narratives of violence, and justice in contemporary Mexico.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policing the Mexican Past
Book Subtitle: Transitional Justice in a Post-authoritarian Regime
Authors: Javier Trevino-Rangel
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94407-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94406-3Published: 23 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94409-4Published: 23 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94407-0Published: 21 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-2797
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 307
Topics: Human Rights, Crime Control and Security, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, International Relations, Political Sociology, Political Science