Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Beyond the threat: The effects of extortion in Guatemala

...Extortion depends on threats of violence and the assumption that the state cannot protect its citizens from those threats. The violence that gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 have p...

Posted on 05 Jul 2021

ESA-Obs

Fishy Business: Illegal fishing in Somalia and the capture of state institutions

Fishy Business

...The waters off Somalia are some of the richest fishing grounds in the world and are still largely untapped. Following the steady decline in attacks by Somali pirates since 2012, foreign fishing fleets...

Posted on 02 Jul 2021

Author(s): Jay Bahadur

JIED

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

...The Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) is an open access Journal for evidence-driven research and policy commentary. It is an initiative of the LSE International Drug Policy Unit, in ...

Posted on 23 Jun 2021

JIED, RESPECT

Call for Papers: Special Section: The human trafficking – organized crime nexus: Overlaps, vulnerabilities, and responses

...This special section aims to explore and advance the discourse on the overlaps between human trafficking and other organized crime markets, including drug trafficking, extortion, illicit trade, counte...

Posted on 22 Jun 2021

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Thi Hoang, Livia Wagner

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Hacia una cultura basada en datos: Retos en la medición de la extorsión en Centroamérica

Hacia una cultura basada en datos

...Extortion is one of the main crimes that negatively affect citizen security in the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) and, to a lesser extent, Costa Rica and Pa...

Posted on 21 Jun 2021

#GIDisappearances, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Partners in crime

...Between 2011 and 2017, three high-level Mexican officials helped transform the Mexican state of Nayarit into an ‘estado narco’. Efforts to bring them to justice have had mixed results, while crime...

Posted on 21 Jun 2021

Author(s): Nathaniel Morris

Crime & Conflict

Criminals or vigilantes? The Kuluna gangs of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Criminals or vigilantes?

...The current rise in insecurity in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is often attributed to urban youth gangs – the Kulunas. Embedded in Kinshasa’s neighbourhood life...

Posted on 17 Jun 2021

Author(s): Marc-André Lagrange, Thierry Vircoulon