Marisol Macías Marisol Macías Marisol Macías Castañeda, also appearing as Maria Elizabeth Macías Castro in media reports and known for her online name "NenaDLaredo" or "La Nena De Laredo," (1972? – 24 September 2011), was a Mexican editor-in-chief for Primera Hora in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico and posted information about drug activities online. Macías was secretly reporting using the internet site Nuevo Laredo en Vivo, or Nuevo Laredo Live, about drug cartels in her city. Los Zetas murdered her in a publicly visible and brutal slaying with a note near her body as a warning to others. Her murder is the first
Public criminology etiology of drug abuse and the assessment of drug policy, race and criminal justice. George L. Kirkham was a criminologist who became a police officer. He wrote a book entitled "signal zero" in 1976 which was an attempt to change student's perceptions of a police officer. Despite these widespread calls for public criminology, many criminologists have voiced concerns regarding the challenges and pitfalls facing the emerging discipline. Uggen & Inderbitzin themselves highlight the structural disincentives towards practicing public criminology including concerns about the "out-left political agenda of many public sociologists... which is a perceived retreat from scientific standards and methods,