Resumen

SILVA FORNE, Carlos; PADRON INNAMORATO, Mauricio  y  PINTA SIERRA, Patricia. Social Tolerance to the Iron Fist: Support for Torture and Exceptional Measures in Mexico. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2021, vol.66, n.243, pp.397-429.  Epub 31-Ene-2022. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2021.243.71526.

Mexico’s insecurity crisis during the past decade has drawn attention to the country’s public security and justice institutions. Although professionalizing and democratizing these forces with very low levels of social trust has been attempted, the achievement of that aim faces, amongst other obstacles, different levels of popular support to authoritarian practices to fight crime. In this particular context, it is interesting to know Mexicans’ opinions and attitudes regarding torture and other measures violating human rights. Using the 2011 National Survey of Constitutional Culture as well as a 2015 original survey on the Perception of the Practice of Torture, this study analyzes the conditions for supporting exceptional measures and shows how Mexican survey respondents largely endorse the torture of “criminals” by the same security institutions they mistrust and fear.

Palabras llave : security; human rights; torture; public opinion; Mexico.

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