Hernan Flom

Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009186346
• Artikelnr.: 66177262

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.