Description
| Product ID: | 9781009170727 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America |
| Authors: | Author: Hernan Flom |
| Page Count: | 300 |
| Subjects: | Politics and government, Politics & government, Constitution: government and the state, Central / national / federal government policies, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Regional, state and other local government policies, Legal aspects of criminology, Government powers, Constitution: government & the state, Central government policies, Regional government, Regional government policies, Criminology: legal aspects, Government powers |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-25 |
