| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America -- Police, Politicians and Drug Markets -- Informal States, Police Politics and Criminal Violence -- Regulation and the Gray Zones of Criminality -- Police: From Destabilizers to Regulators -- Criminal Violence -- Informal Regulation of Illicit Markets -- What Does It Mean That States Regulate Drug Trafficking? -- How States Regulate Drug Trafficking: Informal Regulatory Regimes |
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Research Design -- Case Selection -- Interviews and Other Sources -- Roadmap -- 2 A Theory of Drug Market Regulation -- Actors: Politicians, Police and Criminals -- Politicians -- Police -- Criminal Actors -- Concepts: Political Competition, Police Autonomy and Regulatory Regimes -- Political Competition -- Political Turnover -- Political Fragmentation -- Police Autonomy -- Professionalization versus Politicization -- Regulation -- Regulatory Instruments: Police Corruption and Violence -- Objects of Regulation: Drug Markets and Criminal Violence -- Dynamics |
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How Political Turnover and Fragmentation Affect Police Autonomy -- How Police Autonomy Shapes Drug Trafficking Regulatory Regimes -- Particularistic Confrontation -- Particularistic Negotiation -- Protection Rackets -- Coordinated Coexistence -- Conclusion -- 3 Particularistic Confrontation: The Persistent War between Gangs and Police in Rio de Janeiro -- Overview -- Alternative Explanations -- Police Rackets and the Rise of the CV before Democratization -- Fragile Policies, Autonomous Police and Particularistic Confrontation, 1983-2007 |
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From Defending Human Rights to Rewarding Police Lethality: Reform Cycles and High Police Autonomy, 1983-2006 -- Particularistic Confrontation: The Persistent and Fragmented ''War on Drugs'' in Rio de Janeiro -- Rampant Police Violence: ''We Entered Favelas at Night and Killed Traffickers'' -- Dispersed Corruption: ''Police Always Extorted the Criminals'' -- Criminal Violence: ''You Either Won or Lost'' -- Pacification: A Temporary Coordinated Coexistence, 2008-2014 -- ''Police Are an Organ of the Executive'': Reducing Police Autonomy in Rio |
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Designing and Implementing the UPPs: Reducing Police Autonomy -- ''Before We Shot Each Other and Got Out. Now We Stay.'' The Implementation of Coordinated Coexistence in the Rio Metropolitan Area -- Decreasing Police Violence -- Persistent Police Corruption -- Reducing Criminal Violence -- Epilogue: Post Global Events, Fiscal Crisis and Return to ''Normal'' -- 4 Particularistic Negotiation: The Decentralization of Police Corruption and Increase in Violence in Rosario, Santa Fe -- Overview -- Alternative Explanations -- Police and Political Institutional Legacies in Santa Fe |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2022) |
| Subject |
Drug control -- Latin America
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Drug dealers -- Latin America
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Drug traffic -- Latin America
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General.
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Drug control
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Drug dealers
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Drug traffic
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022028947 |
| ISBN |
9781009170710 |
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1009170716 |
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1009186345 |
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9781009186346 |
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