Reforming the administration of justice in Mexico / edited by Wayne A. Cornelius and David A. Shirk.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : reforming the administration of justice in Mexico / David A. Shirk, Alejandra Ríos Cázares -- pt. 1. Crime and criminality in Mexico -- The social construction of crime in Mexico / Robert Buffington -- A historical perspective on crime in twentieth-century Mexico City / Pablo Piccato -- The Mexican prison system / Elena Azaola, Marcelo Bergman --Pt. 2. Police and policing in Mexico -- A profile of police forces in Mexico / Benjamin Nelson Reames -- Criminal investigation and the subversion of the principles of the justice system in Mexico / Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona -- The militarization of the Procuraduría General de la República : risks for Mexican democracy / Sigrld Arzt -- Police abuse in Mexico City / Carlos Silva -- pt. 3. Civil society in action in the border region -- The Mexican judicial system : continuity and change in a period of democratic consolidation / Sara Schatz, Hugo Concha, Ana Laura Magaloni Kerpel -- Justice reform and legal opinion : the Mexican criminal codes of 1871, 1929, and 1931 / Elisa Speckman Guerra -- The role of lawyers in the Mexican justice system / Héctor Fix-Fierro -- Lobbying for judicial reform : the role of the Mexican Supreme Court in institutional selection / Jeffrey K. Staton --Pt. 4. Crime and society -- Citizen access and professional responsibility in the Mexican justice system / Robert M. Kossick, Jr., Rubén Minutti Z. -- Unweaving the social fabric : the impact of crime on social capital / Pablo Parás -- Binational civic action for accountability : antiviolence organizing in Cd. Júarez-El Paso / Kathleen Staudt, Irasema Coronado -- Different but equal : access to justice for Mexico's indigenous peoples / Rosalva Aída Hernández, Héctor Ortiz Elizondo -- pt. 5. Best practices and policy recommendations -- Exploring roads to police reform : six recommendations / Robert O. Varenik -- Evaluating the zero tolerance strategy and its application in Mexico City / Mario Arroyo Juárez -- Assessing decentralization : what role for municipal government in the administration of justice? / Allison Rowland -- Public security, criminal justice, and human rights : a critique of PAN governance in Jalisco, 1995-2006 / Marcos Pablo Moloeznik -- Reforming the administration of justice in Mexico : strategies and requisites / John Bailey, Wayne A. Cornelius.