Naturalizing insecurity: resilience and drug-related Organized Crime in the Americas

This article critically interrogates the political effect of portraying drug-related organized crime in the Americas as a resilient market phenomenon. It works out how both drug demand and supply are constructed as immune to repressive policy interventions of the War on Drugs. Drug demand is seen as...

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Main Author: Finkenbusch, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Trends in organized crime
Year: 2024, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-211
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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