Reviews

Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs and Trust in Mexico City by Rolando Ochoa

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Abstract

This is a review of the 2020 IASOC Prize Winner Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs and Trust in Mexico City by Rolando Ochoa. Ochoa provides a masterful account of how private citizens understand risk, as kidnapping continues to be a significant problem in Mexico, and manage their private security in an attempt to reduce that risk.

Keywords:

kidnappingorganized crimeprotection racketsprivate securityMexico
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 5 Issue: 1
  • Page/Article: 19–21
  • DOI: 10.31389/jied.187
  • Submitted on 8 Nov 2022
  • Accepted on 13 Feb 2023
  • Published on 14 Nov 2023