The challenges to Mexico in times of political change

Crime, Law and Social Change

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-20

  Moloeznik, Marcos Pablo ^a  

^a Administradores #5093 ^*  (Mexico)

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EID: 0043212166     PISSN: 09254994     EISSN: 15730751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024925516114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. st position given to Mexico in the Human Development Index, from a total of 162 countries. See, United Nations Organization, Program of the United Nations for Development (PUND), Human Development Report 2001.
2. Each decil of income represents 10% of the families in the country. Decil I is the group of families with the lowest income and decil X represents the group of families with the largest income. See Bureau of Labor Statistics, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), Aguascalientes.
3. Federal Executive Power, National Development Plan 2001-2006.
4. Nelia Tello y Carlos García, "The culture of the illegality, antidote to insecurity," in Este Pais Magazine Noviembre 2000, Number 116, 39.
5. See Reforma & El Financiero, Mexico, 14 Mayo 2001. In both newspapers, the Mexican Attorney General's Office (Procuraduría General de la República, PGR) admits to having a backlog of 54,000 police proceedings.
6. See Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona, Center of Investigation for Development (CIDAC), "Towards a Better Endeavor of Justice," August 20, 2001, page 3, based on World Bank, "Survey on Urban Victimization, 1998); and INEGI (Bureau of Statistics), "Statistical Yearbooks on the States of the Republic of Mexico," Aguascalientes, several yearly volumes, and INEGI, "Statistical Judicial Notebooks," Aguascalientes, several yearly volumes.
7. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), "Survey on Social Perceptions and Public Security," Institute of Social Investigations, Unit of Social Violence, Mexico, 30 Octubre 2000.
8. Ernesto.
9. El Financiero, Mexico, 25 Agosto, 2001.
10. El Informador, Guadalajara, 11 Mayo 2001. For this source, the crimes of "greatest social impact" in the Mexican Republic are: violent theft, kidnapping, rape, intentional homicide, and vehicle theft.
11. Ernesto Zedillo, op. cit.
12. World Values Project survey, coordinated by Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan. For Mexico, the survey is nationally representative of the opinions of those 18 years or older and was administered between January 14 and February 7, 2000.
13. 1034 home interviews were given to people older than 18 years in 166 cities in the country, selected through a stratified sample by the size of the population of the localities, with a trustworthiness average of 95%; see the "Millenium Survey" in Público, Guadalajara, 5 Diciembre 2000.
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15. International Transparency, Mexico, May 31, 2001.
16. El Financiero, Mexico, 17 Agosto 2001.
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18. Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo (Sicilia, Italy), in Excelsior, Mexico, 28 Julio 2001.
19. National Development Plan 2001-2006, op. cit.
20. BANAMEX-ACCIVAL, with data from the Socio Political Pulse of Populations survey, May 2001 in Financial Group BANAMEX-ACCIVAL, Analysis of the economic situation of Mexico, number 906, volume LXXVIII, June 2001, page 256.
21. National Survey applied by the Research Department of the Group Reforma, 14/15 Julio 2001, to 1,196 Mexican adults at home. See Reforma, Mexico, 6 Agosto 2001.
22. Graduated in International Relations from the Colegio de Mexico, with an M.A. from Harvard University. He has been national representative twice, as well as senator.
23. Federal Register, Mexico, 8 Diciembre 1988.
24. Amendment to the Public Federal Administration Law, Article 30 bis, particularly see Fraccion X; Federal Register, 30 Noviembre 2000.
25. Reforma, Mexico, 12 Enero 2001.
26. BANAMEX-ACCIVAL, op. cit.
27. "Order and Respect Chapter," National Plan of Development 2001-2006.