The Criminalization of States: The Relationship between States and Organized Crime

✍ Scribed by Jonathan D. Rosen (editor), Bruce Bagley (editor), Jorge Chabat (editor)

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Series: Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence that have created elements of fragility. This book of case studies explores the nature of violence in countries throughout the region.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter OneCriminally Possessed States
Chapter TwoOrganized Crime in Mexico
Chapter ThreeThe Dimensions of Violencein Mexico1
Chapter FourCombating Organized Crime, Violence,and Public Insecurity in Mexico1
Chapter FiveThe Collapse of Mexico’s Police andthe Militarization of Public Security
Chapter SixAt a Crossroads1
Chapter SevenChronic Violence, Organized Crime,and the State in El Salvador
Chapter EightGreen Crime
Chapter NineOrganized Crime and the State inVenezuela under Chavismo1
Chapter TenMaking Sense of Colombia’s“Post-Conflict” Conflict
Chapter ElevenColombia after the FARC
Chapter TwelveThe Colombian Peace Accord
Chapter ThirteenCorruption in Colombia1
Chapter FourteenHow the State Determines IllegalDrugs and Organized Crime
Chapter FifteenCoca, Organized Crime, and(Non-)Violence in Bolivia
Chapter SixteenOrganized Crime and theState in Brazil
Chapter SeventeenOrganized Crime in ArgentinaThe Politics of Laissez-Faire
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors