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  • Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland

  • A History
  • By: Mike Tapia
  • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
  • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland

By: Mike Tapia
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
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This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. From the badlands - the historically notorious eastern Valle de Juárez - to the Puerto Palomas port of entry at Columbus, New Mexico, this area has become more militarized and politicized than ever before. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

Tapia looks extensively at the role of history and geography on criminal subculture formation in the binational urban setting of El Paso-Juárez, demonstrating the region's unique context for criminogenic processes. He provides a poignant case study of Homeland Security and the apparent lack of drug-war spillover in communities on the US-Mexico border.
©2019 the University of New Mexico Press (P)2021 Tantor
Organized Crime Politics & Government Social Sciences State & Local United States Texas City New Mexico History
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An academic text

Hard to love. Clearly slots into a body of academic texts on the subject, but not wildly interesting really.

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