Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels
Research demonstrates that service provision by violent organizations can be an effective strategy for coercing the local community to accept and conceal a group’s violent activities, and for creating loyalty to these groups. This has been most frequently explored among political organizations such...
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| description | Research demonstrates that service provision by violent organizations can be an effective strategy for coercing the local community to accept and conceal a group’s violent activities, and for creating loyalty to these groups. This has been most frequently explored among political organizations such as terrorist groups, with organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas very visibly engaged in providing social welfare in addition to their violent activities. Recent reports indicate that criminal organizations in Mexico also are involved in instances of public service provision in local communities. This article explores the extent to which drug cartels operating in Mexico are involved in public service provision to members of communities where they operate, and considers possible motivations and implications for public service provision by these criminal organizations, with specific attention to the organization La Familia Michoacána/ Knights Templar. The article also gives attention to the consequences to citizenship and government of service provision by violent nonstate actors, and the ways such service provision may disrupt the social contract between the citizen and the state. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3fbe14a5ed404595adefcbf1e024bba62022-12-21T21:55:11ZengHenley-Putnam UniversityJournal of Strategic Security1944-04641944-04722014-10-01736383http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.7.3.4Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug CartelsShawn T. Flanigan0San Diego State UniversityResearch demonstrates that service provision by violent organizations can be an effective strategy for coercing the local community to accept and conceal a group’s violent activities, and for creating loyalty to these groups. This has been most frequently explored among political organizations such as terrorist groups, with organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas very visibly engaged in providing social welfare in addition to their violent activities. Recent reports indicate that criminal organizations in Mexico also are involved in instances of public service provision in local communities. This article explores the extent to which drug cartels operating in Mexico are involved in public service provision to members of communities where they operate, and considers possible motivations and implications for public service provision by these criminal organizations, with specific attention to the organization La Familia Michoacána/ Knights Templar. The article also gives attention to the consequences to citizenship and government of service provision by violent nonstate actors, and the ways such service provision may disrupt the social contract between the citizen and the state.http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol7/iss3/5/Gangs and criminal organizationsGovernance and rule of lawHuman securityHumanitarian assistanceMexicoNarcotics traffickingNonstate actors |
| spellingShingle | Shawn T. Flanigan Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels Journal of Strategic Security Gangs and criminal organizations Governance and rule of law Human security Humanitarian assistance Mexico Narcotics trafficking Nonstate actors |
| title | Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels |
| title_full | Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels |
| title_fullStr | Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels |
| title_short | Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels |
| title_sort | motivations and implications of community service provision by la familia michoacana knights templar and other mexican drug cartels |
| topic | Gangs and criminal organizations Governance and rule of law Human security Humanitarian assistance Mexico Narcotics trafficking Nonstate actors |
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