Crime and custom in Tepito: notes on a miserable abduction
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v30i2pe187938Keywords:
armed robbery, Tepito, Crack, HabitusAbstract
After being robbed for the last time in Tepito (the Mexico City neighborhood where I grew up), I produced an account of the incident halfway between the field diary and the private diary with which I proposed to analyze two phenomena: the first is the principles that I had incorporated during my socialization in the neighborhood and that in the old days allowed to manage illegality, although always with limits, disruptions or adjustments (as is known by the stereotypes and images that circulate in the national public culture, the robberies are everyday acts in Tepito); The second is a particular form of theft that I called miserable robbery, a violent robbery that, given its modus operandi, is hardly prosecuted or punished and that encourages small transactions that constantly mobilize some of the main illegal local economies (drug dealing, purchase / sale of stolen merchandise).
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