Hernan Flom (Connecticut Trinity College)

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how and why politicians and police actors confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to contain criminal violence in urban areas or profit from illicit rents. It will be useful to scholars, students and policymakers interested in crime and violence in Latin America and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781009170703
• ISBN-10: 1009170708
• Artikelnr.: 70202683

Autorenporträt

Hernán Flom is Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Informal regulation of criminal markets in Latin America; 2. A theory of
drug market regulation; 3. Particularistic confrontation: The persistent
war between gangs and police in Rio De Janeiro; 4. Particularistic
negotiation: The decentralization of police corruption and increase in
violence in Rosario, Santa Fe; 5. Coordinated protection: The consolidation
of centralized corruption in Buenos Aires; 6. Coordinated coexistence: The
consolidation of a police-gang truce in São Paulo; 7. Regulation of
criminal markets in weak institutional contexts.