Crimes Against Agriculture: NAFTA as State Crime in Mexico

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Daniel Patten
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Abstract

With the implementation of NAFTA in 1994, several consequences have followed. The current study is a case study of the negative harms primarily felt by Mexican farmers. Using the copious research on NAFTA, the trade deal is shown to have ingratiated transnational corporations while leaving poor rural farmers to cope for themselves in a newly shaped economy. Using anomie-strain theory, social structure of accumulation theory, and the concept of a criminogenic policy, NAFTA is contextually situated and connected to its harmful effects, contributing to poverty, under- and unemployment, displacement of rural farmers, the destruction of small-scale corn growers, malnutrition via the neoliberal diet, and a loss of Mexican food sovereignty. Nearly three decades after NAFTA, ignorance of such effects should not be possible in light of negotiating new or renegotiated old trade deals. Researchers of state crime must build an understanding of how policy is a tool of state crime.
反农业犯罪:北美自由贸易协定在墨西哥的国家犯罪
随着1994年北美自由贸易协定的实施,产生了若干后果。目前的研究是对墨西哥农民主要感受到的负面伤害的案例研究。利用对北美自由贸易协定的大量研究,这项贸易协定显示出它讨好了跨国公司,却让贫穷的农村农民在新形态的经济中自谋生路。利用反常压力理论、积累理论的社会结构和犯罪政策的概念,北美自由贸易协定被置于环境中,并与其有害影响联系在一起,导致贫困、失业和失业、农村农民的流离失所、小规模玉米种植者的破坏、新自由主义饮食导致的营养不良,以及墨西哥粮食主权的丧失。《北美自由贸易协定》签署近30年后,鉴于谈判新的或重新谈判旧的贸易协定,不应该忽视这种影响。研究国家犯罪的人必须了解政策是如何成为国家犯罪的工具的。
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State Crime
State Crime POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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