RT Book
T1 The informal regulation of criminal markets in Latin America
A1 Flom, Hernán
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1817813218
AB This book explains how states informally regulate drug markets in Latin America. It shows how and why state actors, specifically police and politicians, confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to extract illicit rents or prevent criminal violence. The book highlights how, in countries with weak institutions, police act as interlocutors between criminals and politicians. It shows that whether and how politicians control their police forces explains the prevalence of different informal regulatory arrangements to control drug markets. Using detailed case studies built on 180 interviews in four cities in Argentina and Brazil, the book reconstructs how these informal regulatory arrangements emerged and changed over time.
OP 254
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Aug 2022)
CN 364.1/3365098
SN 9781009170710
SN 9781009170727
SN 9781009170703
K1 Drug control : Latin America
K1 Drug dealers : Latin America
K1 Drug traffic : Latin America
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781009170710