Institutionalized Police Brutality: Torture, the Militarization of Security and the Reform of Inquisitorial Criminal Justice in Mexico

Using a large survey of the Mexican prison population and leveraging the date and place of arrest, this paper provides causal evidence about how militarized security interventions and criminal justice reform shape torture and other forms of police brutality. The main dataset used in this paper comes from the Encuesta Nacional de Personas Privadas de la Libertad (ENPOL) collected by the Mexican Statistical office (INEGI) in 2016.