Original data from Mexico and Colombia examines why some homicide and disappearance cases enter the judicial pipeline while most languish. Janice Gallagher's research, supplemented by this deposit, finds cases targeted by civil society action are more than twice as likely to show investigatory activity than average cases. The data includes national, sub-national, organizational, and individual-level analysis, triangulated with statistical evidence, interviews, and ethnographic evidence.
Use Cases
- Analyze the impact of NGO advocacy on judicial progress based on case-level intervention data
- Compare investigatory outcomes for homicides versus disappearances based on the category of lethal violence
- Study geographic and temporal patterns of case adjudication based on national and sub-national level data
- Model predictors of case success in the judicial pipeline based on statistical evidence and survey data
Strengths
- Data triangulates statistical evidence, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic evidence
- Survey conducted by a professional statistical firm (Buendía & Laredo, S.C.) using a multistage area probability sample design
- Research design focuses on two democracies (Mexico and Colombia) with high rates of lethal violence and impunity
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Last updated 2026-05-04 07:12:51; freshness should be verified
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Original data collection including a randomized person-to-person survey and case-level analysis
- Time Range
- Survey conducted between July 5th and 8th, 2012; other temporal coverage is unspecified
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-04 07:12:51
- Geography
- Mexico and Colombia, including rural, urban, and mixed areas