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This paper analyze how the video surveillance puts the personal data that manage in a space of legal indeterminacy, and how generates process of social and space classification that derive, sometimes, in forms of social exclusion. The perspective that frame the capacity that individuals have to construct autonomy and control spaces against the stratification and domination logics. From this perspective, it's analyzed how the weak or inexistent regulation of video surveillance cameras in Mexico can affect the citizenship practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to develop some sociological explanations of violence by the Mexican government combat organized crime call. For this reason, the Mexican state violence is regarded as the introduction of new rules aimed at the non-recognition of the informal practices of organized groups that control, for example, so lucrative drug trafficking. However, the state order is imposed in a context of social vulnerability, defined as a weakness of citizenship, for example, civil and social rights. Especially because the idea of public safety state, based on technological methods of control of the collective integrations in public spaces, undetermined civil rights and at the sometime, it has failed to consider that social policies were state protections that prevent the spread of poverty and misery, considered as another cause of the proliferation of illegal activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper builds an interpretation of violence in the State of Mexico. Part of recognizing that the continuing conflict/violence/crime is likely to be canceled to the extent that society generates a public moral with conflictuality minimums, and police to engage with society. From the construction of the two components may create conditions for building a democratic and peace society in which the state maintains a monopoly on force. The inputs of this work was the focus groups of police and representatives of civil society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]