In contemporary Mexico, the ideal of citizen responsibility and cooperation with authorities in crime prevention coexists with a widespread mistrust and disillusionment with the state. In this context, 90 percent of crimes go unreported to the police, a statistic that is a concern not only for law enforcement authorities but also for citizens who frequently comment that reporting is an ideal, even if few do so. Moving beyond a discussion of why people do or do not report crime, this article analyzes metapragmatic talk about (non)reporting in Mexico City's largest food market, La Central de Abasto. It shows such talk to be socially productive in the constitution of unequal publics. Merchants, workers, and authorities draw on and reproduce a language ideology in which the difficult‐to‐execute bureaucratic practice of reporting crime indexes proper citizenship even as forms of speech coded as silence or rumor index complicity with criminality. An attention to the metapragmatics of the crime report can thus expand understandings of contemporary processes of criminalization and its relationship to the constitution of unequal publics.

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通过共谋定罪：（不）在墨西哥城举报犯罪

在当代墨西哥，公民责任与预防犯罪当局合作的理想与对国家的广泛不信任和幻灭并存。在这种情况下，有90％的犯罪未报告给警察，这不仅引起执法部门的关注，而且也引起人们的关注，尽管很少有人这样做，但经常批评举报是理想的。除了讨论人们为什么不举报犯罪的讨论之外，本文还分析了墨西哥城最大的食品市场La Central de Abasto关于（非）举报的超实用主义言论。它表明这种言论在不平等的公众构成中具有社会生产力。商人，工人，当局借鉴并复制了一种语言意识形态，在这种意识形态中，举报犯罪行为的官僚作风难以体现适当的公民身份，即使言论形式被编码为沉默或谣言索引与犯罪共谋。因此，对犯罪报告的元语用学的关注可以扩大对当代犯罪定罪过程及其与不平等公众构成之间关系的理解。