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Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today

Author : Bruce M. Bagley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063124
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today written by Bruce M. Bagley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extensive overview of the drug trade in the Americas and its impact on politics, economics, and society throughout the region. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "A first-rate update on the state of the long-fought hemispheric 'war on drugs.' It is particularly timely, as the perception that the war is lost and needs to be changed has never been stronger in Latin and North America."--Paul Gootenberg, author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug "A must-read volume for policy makers, concerned citizens, and students alike in the current search for new approaches to forty-year-old policies largely considered to have failed."--David Scott Palmer, coauthor of Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace "A very useful primer for anyone trying to keep up with the ever-evolving relationship between drug enforcement and drug trafficking."--Peter Andreas, author of Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America In 1971, Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Despite foreign policy efforts and attempts to combat supply lines, the United States has been for decades, and remains today, the largest single consumer market for illicit drugs on the planet. This volume argues that the war on drugs has been ineffective at best and, at worst, has been highly detrimental to many countries. Leading experts in the fields of public health, political science, and national security analyze how U.S. policies have affected the internal dynamics of Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Central America, and the Caribbean islands. Together, they present a comprehensive overview of the major trends in drug trafficking and organized crime in the early twenty-first century. In addition, the editors and contributors identify emerging issues and propose several policy options to address them. This accessible and expansive volume provides a framework for understanding the limits and liabilities in the U.S.-championed war on drugs throughout the Americas.

Violence in the Americas

Author : Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498567312
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Violence in the Americas written by Jonathan D. Rosen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has created elements of fragility. The book is comprises case studies that explore the nature of violence in countries throughout the region. Moreover, it seeks to address some of the ways in which governments have sought to address violence. The cases examined in this volume are quite diverse, illustrating different types of violence as all of the countries in Latin America are not the same. Countries like Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico have high levels of drug trafficking and organized crime. Strategies designed to combat drug trafficking organization, particularly in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, and counter-gang strategies in Central America have help foment violence as these various criminal organizations have responded to such government policies. Yet other countries, like Peru and Bolivia, have much lower levels of violence. However, the perception of insecurity is quite high despite the fact that Peru has one of the lower homicide rates in the country. On the other hand, the nature of violence in Bolivia is quite different. This country does not have a homicide rate like El Salvador, but the country has witnessed public lynchings and other forms of violence. This volume is an effort to better understand the major trends in political violence in this particularly violent region.

Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America

Author : Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000164330
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America written by Jonathan D. Rosen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab explore the linkage between weak institutions and government policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine criminal violence and publicly available survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to conduct regression analysis, individual case studies on Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua highlight the major challenges that governments face and how they have responded to various security issues. Rosen and Kassab later turn their attention to the role of external criminal actors in the region and offer policy recommendations and lessons learned. Questions explored include: What are the major trends in organized crime in this country? How has organized crime evolved over time? Who are the major criminal actors? How has state fragility contributed to organized crime and violence (and vice versa)? What has been the government’s response to drug trafficking and organized crime? Have such policies contributed to violence? Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America is suitable to both undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice, international relations, political science, comparative politics, international political economy, organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence.

Drugs, Gangs, and Violence

Author : Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319944517
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Drugs, Gangs, and Violence written by Jonathan D. Rosen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America. While the nature of organized crime and violence differs depending on the context, the authors explain how and why states plagued by weak institutions tend to foster criminal organizations and violence, and why counter-crime initiatives often result in higher levels of violence. By examining the consequences of tough on crime policies (e.g., mano dura) in places like Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia, the volume offers a new perspective on the link between state fragility, crime, and violence.

Countering Criminal Violence in Central America

Author : Michael Shifter
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN 13 : 0876095481
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Countering Criminal Violence in Central America written by Michael Shifter and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2012 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Council Special Report, sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, Shifter assesses the causes and consequences of the violence faced by several Central American countries, and examines the national, regional, and international efforts intended to curb its worst effects.

Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789211303162
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is one of several studies conducted by UNODC on organized crime threats around the world. These studies describe what is known about the mechanics of contraband trafficking - the what, who, how, and how much of illicit flows - and discuss their potential impact on governance and development. Their primary role is diagnostic, but they also explore the implications of these findings for policy. Publisher's note.

Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico

Author : Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498535615
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico written by Jonathan D. Rosen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto examines the major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in the country. This work highlights the transition from the Felipe Calderón administration to the Enrique Peña Nieto government, focusing on differences and continuities in counternarcotics policies as well as other trends such as violence and drug trafficking.

Drug Cartel and Gang Violence in Mexico and Central America

Author : Robert O. Kirkland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781516599615
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Drug Cartel and Gang Violence in Mexico and Central America written by Robert O. Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gives readers an overview of the issues associated with drugs, cartels, and gangs in Mexico and Central America. The readings are based on years of field research and interviews with regional leaders and local actors. The book examines the history and growth of Mexican drug cartels and the central role corruption plays in facilitating drug trafficking while simultaneously debilitating the Mexican state's efforts to confront them. The rise of Mexican community-based crime fighting is also discussed, as well as the changing role of Central American gangs, particularly in their relationship with Mexican drug-trafficking organizations. This edition includes new readings that feature current data and statistics on Mexican drug cartels and Central American gang violence, as well as an evaluation of Mexico's response to events in Jalisco from 2015-2018. Highly accessible, yet replete with valuable information and insight ... is ideal for courses in criminal justice, homeland security, and Latin American studies." -- Page 4 of cover.

Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability

Author : Phil Williams
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability written by Phil Williams and published by Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College. This book was released on 2012 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although challenges posed by various kinds of violent armed groups initially appear highly diverse and unrelated to one another, in fact they all reflect the increasing connections between security and governance and, in particular, the relationship between poor governance and violent armed groups. In many cases, these groups are overtly challenging the state; in others they are cooperating and colluding with state structures while subtly undermining them; in yet others, the state is a passive bystander while violent armed groups are fighting one another. The mix is different, the combinations vary, and the perpetrators of violence have different motives, methods, and targets. In spite of their divergent forms, violent nonstate actors (VNSAs) share certain qualities and characteristics. These violent armed groups represent a common challenge to national and international security, a challenge that is far greater than the sum of the individual groups, and that is likely to grow rather than diminish over the next several decades. This monograph focuses on the complex relationship between human security, crime, illicit economies, and law enforcement. It also seeks to disentangle the linkages between insurgency on the one hand and drug trafficking and organized crime on the other, suggesting that criminal activities help sustain an insurgency, but also carry certain risks for the insurgency.

Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking

Author : Gabriella Sanchez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100046296X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking written by Gabriella Sanchez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexico’s people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to mention fail to incorporate the perspectives of its actors in the research development process. This collection of essays shows how community-based research efforts to examine practices like kidnapping, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, sex work and citizen-led forensics in Mexico can effectively correct methodological and conceptual gaps present in Mexico’s dominant organized crime narrative, while providing effective mechanisms to inform academic and policy debates. This easy-to-read volume provides a much-needed re-assessment of Mexico’s organized crime rhetoric, and also outlines a pathway for those interested in developing critical empirical research on illicit and criminalized practices. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Victims & Offenders.

America's Habit

Author : United States. President's Commission on Organized Crime
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Habit written by United States. President's Commission on Organized Crime and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Illegal Drugs, Drug Trafficking and Violence in Latin America

Author : Marcelo Bergman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331973153X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Illegal Drugs, Drug Trafficking and Violence in Latin America written by Marcelo Bergman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the main patterns and trends of drug trafficking in Latin America and analyzes its political, economic and social effects on several countries over the last twenty years. Its aim is to provide readers an introductory yet elaborate text on the illegal drug problem in the region. It first seeks to define and measure the problem, and then discusses some of the implications that the growth of production, trafficking, and consumption of illegal drugs had in the economies, in the social fabrics, and in the domestic and international policies of Latin American countries. This book analyzes the illegal drugs problem from a Latin American perspective. Although there is a large literature and research on drug use and trade in the USA, Canada, Europe and the Far East, little is understood on the impact of narcotics in countries that have supplied a large share of the drugs used worldwide. This work explores how routes into Europe and the USA are developed, why the so-called drug cartels exist in the region, what level of profits illegal drugs generate, how such gains are distributed among producers, traffickers, and dealers and how much they make, why violence spread in certain places but not in others, and which alternative policies were taken to address the growing challenges posed by illegal drugs. With a strong empirical foundation based on the best available data, Illegal Drugs, Drug Trafficking and Violence in Latin America explains how rackets in the region built highly profitable enterprises transshipping and smuggling drugs northbound and why the large circulation of drugs also produced the emergence of vibrant domestic markets, which doubled the number of drug users in the region the last 10 years. It presents the best available information for 18 countries, and the final two chapters analyze in depth two rather different case studies: Mexico and Argentina.

Drug Trafficking and International Security

Author : Paul Rexton Kan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442247592
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Drug Trafficking and International Security written by Paul Rexton Kan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking.

The Politics of Drug Violence

Author : Angelica Duran-Martinez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190695986
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Drug Violence written by Angelica Duran-Martinez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the result of brutality. Rather, they stem from structural conditions that vary from country to country and from era to era. In The Politics of Drug Violence, Angelica Durán-Martínez shows how variation in drug violence results from the complex relationship between state power and criminal competition. Drawing on remarkably extensive fieldwork, this book compares five cities that have been home to major trafficking organizations for the past four decades: Cali and Medellín in Colombia, and Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, and Tijuana in Mexico. She shows that violence escalates when trafficking organizations compete and the state security apparatus is fragmented. However, when the criminal market is monopolized and the state security apparatus cohesive, violence tends to be more hidden and less frequent. The size of drug profits does not determine violence levels, and neither does the degree of state weakness. Rather, the forms and scale of violent crime derive primarily from the interplay between marketplace competition and state cohesiveness. An unprecedentedly rich empirical account of one of the worst problems of our era, the book will reshape our understanding of the forces driving organized criminal violence in Latin America and elsewhere.

The Politics of Drug Violence

Author : Angélica Durán-Martínez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190695951
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Drug Violence written by Angélica Durán-Martínez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Events like narcoterrorism in Colombia in the 1980s, or beheadings in Mexico, grab headlines easily. Yet drug traffickers also hide or minimize violence, or engage in quiet wars. The Politics of Drug Violence explains variation in drug violence looking at the interactions between state power, criminal competition, and the forms of coercion criminals employ" (ed.).

Transnational Crime in the Americas

Author : Tom J. Farer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135961395
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Crime in the Americas written by Tom J. Farer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most destructive force in the Americas today is not El NiÑo-it is the criminal enterprises that recognize no geographic, legal or moral boundaries. This book exposes the main characteristics and effects of criminal enterprises in the Americas and considers realistic strategies for combating them. Looking at how crime penetrates private business, government, and the everyday lives of the people, this collection examines the impact of criminal enterprises on the legitimate economy and the ability of states to promote the rule of law. It compares criminal enterprises in the Americas with other regions, and considers the foreign policy concerns of the US. With a recent upsurge in the scope, sophistication and cooperation among groups, this book is essential tool for understanding one of the greatest challenges to security, peace and democracy in the Americas.

Transnational Crimes in the Americas

Author : Marshall B. Lloyd
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088427
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Crimes in the Americas written by Marshall B. Lloyd and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Transnational Crimes in the Americas’ addresses contemporary issues with respect to public institutions that are stakeholders in the fight against globalization of crime. Regional public organizations, with a primary focus on the Americas, constitute a framework for understanding the need for an institutional response within the Western Hemisphere. While other authors have addressed the growth of organized crime, no one has explained institutional developments in the struggle against transnational crimes. 'Transnational Crimes in the Americas’ highlights existing organizations, emphasizing a regional response to transnational crimes, suggestions for a permanent criminal court in the Americas and an appraisal of the current state of institutional developments in the region.