The informal regulation of criminal markets in Latin America

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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Flom, Hernán (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
In:Jahr: 2022
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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Physische Details:1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:9781009170710
9781009170727
9781009170703
DOI:10.1017/9781009170710