Cory Molzahn, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira and David A. Shirk
February 2013
This is the fourth of a series of reports that the Justice in Mexico Project has put together each year to compile the latest available data and analysis to evaluate these challenges. These reports have been especially intended to inform a U.S. audience, since news media coverage of Mexico in the United States tends to be fleeting and gravitates toward sporadic, sensationalistic incidents, rather than broader and longer term trends.