At the mercy of predatory corruption: women in Mexico’s prisons

Milena Ang and Yuna Blajer de la Garza

Chapter 28 in Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies, 2024, pp 370-383 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Using the 2021 survey of incarcerated populations in Mexico (ENPOL), we examine whether women experience corruption differently from men. We show that women are more frequently solicited for bribes by corrupt officials than men are. The bribes demanded of them are higher, not in absolute terms but relative to their income. Women claim more often to be incarcerated under false charges, and they represent the majority of those confined without sentencing. In other words, women are more likely to report being at the mercy of predatory corruption by governmental officials, a term referring to the behavior of officials who use coercion and their positions of power to extract rents from individuals with lower bargaining power. We contend, therefore, that addressing corruption constitutes not only a pressing governance and development issue, but a gender problem as well.

Keywords: Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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