Transnational crime and public security : challenges to Mexico and the United States /

Transnational crime and public security : challenges to Mexico and the United States / edited by John Bailey and Jorge Chabat. - La Jolla, Calif. : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies/University of California, San Diego, c2002. - xxi, 473 p. ; 23 cm. - U.S.-Mexico contemporary perspectives series ; 18 .

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1 Transnational Crime and Public Security: Trends and -- Issues -- John Bailey and Jorge Chabat -- CHALLENGES TO MEXICO -- 2 Mexico's National Public Security System: Perspectives -- for the New Millennium -- Viviana Macias and Fernando Castillo -- 3 Inefficiency at the Service of Impunity: Criminal Justice -- Organizations in Mexico -- Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona -- 4 The Police in Mexico: Political Functions and Needed -- Reforms -- Ernesto L6pez Portillo Vargas -- 5 Combating Organized Crime in Mexico: Mission -- [Im]Possible? -- Sigrid Arzt -- 6 The Evolution of Intelligence Services in Mexico -- Leonardo Curzio -- 7 Public Security versus Private Security? -- Jorge Regallado Santilldn -- CHALLENGES TO THE UNITED STATES -- 8 Building Bridges and Barricades: Trade Facilitation -- versus Drug Enforcement in U.S.-Mexico Relations -- Peter Andreas -- 9 Drug Demand Reduction Policy and Practice in the -- United States: A Preliminary Review -- W. Carsten Andresen and Graham Farrell -- 10 Changing Security Challenges and Mexico-U.S. -- Military Interaction -- Graham H. Turbiville, Jr. -- 11 U.S. Foreign Intelligence and Mexico: The Evolving -- Relationship -- Brian Latell -- CHALLENGES IN THE BORDER REGION -- 12 Security Regimes on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- Jose Z. Garcia -- 13 Cooperation on Narco-Trafficking and Public Securit' -- on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- Jose M. Ramos -- 14 U.S.-Mexico Subnational Cooperation in Public -- Security and Law Enforcement: The Arizona/Sonora -- Judicial Relations Project -- Bruce Zagaris -- 15 Mexico, the United States, and the Migration-Crime -- Nexus -- William F McDonald -- 16 Fostering a Culture of Lawfulness on the Mexico-U.S -- Border: Evaluation of a Pilot School-Based Program -- Roy Godson and Dennis Jay Kenney -- 17 Conclusions and Recommendations: Toward Better -- Knowledge, Communication, and Confidence -- John Bailey and Jorge Chabat -- The Contributors.



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Transnational crime--Mexico.
Transnational crime--United States.
National security--Mexico.
National security--United States.
Law enforcement--International cooperation.--Mexico
Law enforcement--International cooperation.--United States


Mexico--Foreign relations.
United States--Foreign relations.

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