This article examines the clandestine connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. Drawing on a unique combination of long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and wiretapped conversations drawn from a court case involving a drug trafficking group active in the same area, we find that traffickers use illicit relationships to maintain economic control of the territory, and that collusion fosters widespread cynicism about law enforcement among residents. This article expands the literature on the covert relationships between drug trade participants and agents of the state by detailing the inne...
Three Latin American countries centralise cocaine production in the world: Bolivia, Peru, and Colomb...
Many discussions of mafia and criminal entrepreneurs typically focus on violence and illegality, and...
Objectives: The current study contributes to the literature through a systematic social observation ...
This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militia...
How do states regulate drug trafficking? The sale of illicit drugs generates an estimated US$870 bi...
This article intends to approach the drug trade from the perspective of its capillary network in the...
This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militia...
This article challenges the mainstream discourse that is often used to conceptualize illegal drug su...
In a search for appropriate theory, this essay inserts drug trafficking, the world’s largest illicit...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
Many Bolivians engage in corruption through intermediaries, like civil society representatives and l...
The analysis focuses on the influence of illegal economies on local order and questions the conventi...
Examining Rio de Janeiro's milícias (‘militias’) through a ‘coercive brokerage’ concept can reveal h...
In this article, actor network theory is used to explore the consumption of crack cocaine in street ...
In this paper we examine the effects of this drug trafficking contrabandista activity, the rise and ...
Three Latin American countries centralise cocaine production in the world: Bolivia, Peru, and Colomb...
Many discussions of mafia and criminal entrepreneurs typically focus on violence and illegality, and...
Objectives: The current study contributes to the literature through a systematic social observation ...
This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militia...
How do states regulate drug trafficking? The sale of illicit drugs generates an estimated US$870 bi...
This article intends to approach the drug trade from the perspective of its capillary network in the...
This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militia...
This article challenges the mainstream discourse that is often used to conceptualize illegal drug su...
In a search for appropriate theory, this essay inserts drug trafficking, the world’s largest illicit...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
Many Bolivians engage in corruption through intermediaries, like civil society representatives and l...
The analysis focuses on the influence of illegal economies on local order and questions the conventi...
Examining Rio de Janeiro's milícias (‘militias’) through a ‘coercive brokerage’ concept can reveal h...
In this article, actor network theory is used to explore the consumption of crack cocaine in street ...
In this paper we examine the effects of this drug trafficking contrabandista activity, the rise and ...
Three Latin American countries centralise cocaine production in the world: Bolivia, Peru, and Colomb...
Many discussions of mafia and criminal entrepreneurs typically focus on violence and illegality, and...
Objectives: The current study contributes to the literature through a systematic social observation ...