Government and organized criminal groups co-exist in uneasy equilibrium. Criminal groups adjust their behavior as a function of their own goals and resources in relation to inter-group cooperation and conflict, dynamic markets, and public policies; governments adjust their behavior according to shifting perceptions of the benefits offered, threats posed, and strategies adopted by criminal groups. When governments attempt to control or repress their activities, criminal groups employ various tools and instruments that might be grouped into three categories: evasion, corruption, and confrontation. The paper draws on recent cases from Brazil and Mexico with respect to tactical and strategic choices by governments and criminal groups, seeking t...
The monopoly of violence in the hands of the state is conceived as the principal vehicle to generate...
The article describes the problem of organized crime in modern Mexico. It addresses the activities o...
Organized crime in Mexico has been responsible for a worrying increase in violence in that country s...
Government and organized criminal groups co-exist in uneasy equilibrium. Criminal groups adjust thei...
Government and organized criminal groups co-exist in uneasy equilibrium. Criminal groups adjust thei...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
In recent decades organized crime has ceased to be an isolated issue concerning only a single countr...
Over the past generation Latin America has experienced high levels of criminal violence associated w...
O crime organizado no Brasil está tão infiltrado no estado quanto no México. A diferença é que, enqu...
Organizers: Benjamin Lessing (UChicago, USA), Joana Monteiro (FGV, Brazil), and Michel Misse (UFRJ, ...
Transnational organized crime is a pressing global security issue. Mexico is currently embroiled in ...
Why do drug cartels fight states? Episodes of armed conflict between drug cartels and states in Colo...
Between 2005 and 2015, organized criminal groups murdered 209 politicians in Mexico. This paper expl...
This article aims to explain, not so much the existence of organized crime and violence in Latin Ame...
How do organized criminal groups (OCGs) respond to military interventions intended to weaken and sub...
The monopoly of violence in the hands of the state is conceived as the principal vehicle to generate...
The article describes the problem of organized crime in modern Mexico. It addresses the activities o...
Organized crime in Mexico has been responsible for a worrying increase in violence in that country s...
Government and organized criminal groups co-exist in uneasy equilibrium. Criminal groups adjust thei...
Government and organized criminal groups co-exist in uneasy equilibrium. Criminal groups adjust thei...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
In recent decades organized crime has ceased to be an isolated issue concerning only a single countr...
Over the past generation Latin America has experienced high levels of criminal violence associated w...
O crime organizado no Brasil está tão infiltrado no estado quanto no México. A diferença é que, enqu...
Organizers: Benjamin Lessing (UChicago, USA), Joana Monteiro (FGV, Brazil), and Michel Misse (UFRJ, ...
Transnational organized crime is a pressing global security issue. Mexico is currently embroiled in ...
Why do drug cartels fight states? Episodes of armed conflict between drug cartels and states in Colo...
Between 2005 and 2015, organized criminal groups murdered 209 politicians in Mexico. This paper expl...
This article aims to explain, not so much the existence of organized crime and violence in Latin Ame...
How do organized criminal groups (OCGs) respond to military interventions intended to weaken and sub...
The monopoly of violence in the hands of the state is conceived as the principal vehicle to generate...
The article describes the problem of organized crime in modern Mexico. It addresses the activities o...
Organized crime in Mexico has been responsible for a worrying increase in violence in that country s...