Correction: The Association between Anti-cartel Military Intervention and Municipal Homicide Rates in Mexico, 2000–2022
Year: 2026
Type: erratum
Abstract: In this article the following corrections have been made:The first paragraph under the 'Introduction' section was missing', the paragraph should have read:Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is home to 8% of the global population but more than one-third of annual homicides (Escaño and Pridemore 2023a; World Health Organiza tion, 2023).One nation stands out: Mexico.In the sixteen years between 2007 and 2022, fol lowing President Calderón's declaration of war against cartels1, nearly half a million people were victims of homicide in Mexico (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Infor mática 2023a)2.There are several negative consequences of the high violence rate in the nation, including population displacement, citizens' perceptions of insecurity (Valázquez, 2023) and reduced state legitimacy, and an annual monetary cost estimated at USD$192 billion, or nearly 15% of the nation's GDP for 2021 (Cervantes et al., 2023).According to the Internal Displacement Monitor Centre (2022), about 380,000 citizens were displaced in Mexico from 2009 to 2018 due to violence and organized crime.The footnotes 1 and 2 were missing and should have been:1. Organized criminal groups are variously labeled cartels, mafia, gangs, and drug trafficking organizations ( Barnes 2021 ). Debates about what defines these groups is beyondThe original article can be found online at h t t p s : / / d o i . o r g / 1 0 . 1 0 0 7 / s 1 0 9 4 0 -0 2 6 -0 9 6 8 2 -6 .
Institutions: Villanova University, University of Georgia
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,090
OpenAlex ID: W7207583727