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ÉTAT DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN LAS RELACIONES FAMILIARES

All this is presented in a stark manner in the security sector in Mexico, so we try to give an
account of the challenges against corruption and impunity in this basic component of public

policies in our country.

2. To understand the so-called security sector

Security is, above all, a public good intimately linked to the quality of life and the level of

economic, political and social well-being of a community. It is also conceived as a basic right
that everyone must enjoy for the mere fact of being a human being, from defining as safe to

what is free and free of all danger, harm or risk, in accordance with the dictionary of the

language Spanish (RAE, 2015: 1). While it is possible to identify two trends in the matter:
the extensionist that corresponds to the concept of human security composed of seven

components ranging from political security to environmental security, and the restricted one

that occurs in those scenarios marked by a response State coercive (For a preliminary version,

see, Moloeznik, 2013: 17-23).

In Mexico, the traditional or instrumental current of security dominates, which starts from
the conception of the State as the holder of the legitimate monopoly of force in a given

territory (Weber, 1967: 78).

This idea-force of Max Weber is enshrined normatively in Article 17 of the Political

Constitution of the United Mexican States (2015), which literally reads:

No person will be able to do justice by itself, nor exercise violence to claim their right. Every
person has the right to be administered justice by courts that will be expedited to impart it

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