Resumen

PINA OSUNA, Francisco Manuel; CINCO ANDUAGA, Maximiliano  y  MARTINEZ SAUZA, Alain Higinio. Negative beliefs towards the organs of justice and drug trafficking in Sonora. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.92, pp.281-308.  Epub 18-Mar-2022. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/922022/aot5/pinaosunaf.

The justice institutions in Mexico historically suffer of low performance, which makes the concept of them precarious (Astorga, 2015; Barrón, 2015); added to this is the security crisis caused by drug trafficking in the region. Before this and based on Hirschi (2003), where the beliefs towards social norms play a fundamental role in crime control, this research describes the perceptions towards various figures of imparting justice in a group of 12 prisoners for drug-trafficking crimes in the State of Sonora, México and details the role they played in their immersion into the crime. Following a qualitative methodology based in semi-structured interview, the findings shows that the negative beliefs towards the imparting justice had as effect of considering drug trafficking as a viable activity, where greater benefits were obtained, with a low possibility of punishment.

Palabras llave : Crime control; police institutions; justice system; laws; institutional weakness; prison population.

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