Markus-Michael Müller

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the emergence of a Latin American form of penal statecraft, taking an in-depth look at the increasing criminalization of urban marginality in contemporary Latin America as well as the related developments in the local prison system, the single most important institutional expression of the Latin American penal state.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze transnationalized forms of security governance in the contemporary postcolonial world and propose a transnationalised security governance model for the post-colonial world.

TL;DR: In this article, an examination of these processes in the implementation of the "rescue" of Mexico City's historic center and related securitization of urban space in the neighborhood of La Merced reveals that the implementation and sustainability of local urban renewal project is constantly challenged and modified by the presence of powerful illegal actors and informal practices of negotiation.

TL;DR: A discussion of the expansion of Latin American imprisonment, changes in the region's prison regimes and their embeddedness within wider social and economic contexts, as well as the impact of institutional histories, larger economic and political transformation processes and globally circulating penal ideas and institutional models, all of which contribute to the growing punitiveness of contemporary Latin America states and politics are presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a critical analysis of the local community policing effort in Mexico City and demonstrate that this policing effort is overly determined by a local context, characterized by clientelism, political factionalism and police corruption, which renders its contribution to a sustainable improvement of local accountability and police legitimacy unlikely.