Acapulco city, in the South of Mexico, built its fame as a great tourist spot during the second half of the twentieth century. However, in the last five years, the city has been ranked as one of the most violent cities in the country due to the high homicide rate, often related to criminal group disputes, drug trafficking, and corrupted authorities in both local and national levels. Victims broadly include innocent people in a ratio difficult to accurately calculate. Although scholars have tried to explain this crisis from many angles, this article proposes to do so from two perspectives. On the one hand, by using the idea of the city to understand the processes of violence and crime centralization. On the other, by using Acapulco's geography as an explanatory variable -and more specifically, the infrastructure that communicates the city with routes and destinations to expand criminal markets. Finally, this paper points to suggest the necessity of incorporating a "routes and connections" approach for the public policies for cities with high levels of violence and crime.
Peña, R. (2017). The city of Acapulco: Analysis of the paths of violence and crime in Mexico. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 3(2), 20–32. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2017.47758
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