Policing the Mexican Past

Javier Trevino-Rangel is Associate Professor in the Centre of Research and Literary Studies of Aguascalientes at the University of the Arts of Aguascalientes, Mexico. He’s also visiting fellow in the Department of Sociology at LSE, UK. He has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK, and Assistant Professor in the Drugs Policy Programme at the Center of Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Aguascalientes, Mexico. His research interests include: human rights discourses and atrocities, narratives of violence, and justice in contemporary Mexico.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. Authoritarianism and Past Atrocity in Mexico, 1929-2000.- Chapter 2. Transitional Justice: A Field of Practice and Knowledge.- Chapter 3. Neither Inevitable, Nor Necessary: The Emergence of Mexico’s Transitional Justice Process.- Chapter 4. Making Up Transitional Justice: Defining, Classifying, and Acting on Past Human Rights Abuses.- Chapter 5. The Retributive Goals of the Special Prosecutor’s Office: A De Facto Amnesty.- Conclusions.