Date: 2019
Type: Article
Accounting for turbulence in the Colombian underworld
Trends in organized crime, 2019, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 166-186
KRAKOWSKI, Krzysztof, ZUBIRIA, Gladys, Accounting for turbulence in the Colombian underworld, Trends in organized crime, 2019, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 166-186
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Organized crime groups (OCGs) fight against each other even if it harms their businesses and exposes them to law enforcement authorities. Why do some groups refrain from fighting, while others operate in the incessantly violent underworld? To explain this puzzle, we propose that the underworld conflict is related to the strategies of extra-legal governance adopted by OCGs. We suggest that such strategies have origins in the availability of resources within the groups reach at their entrance into the underworld. More specifically, OCGs with access to easily extractable resources develop limited governance, which leaves them vulnerable to internal and external challenges. OCGs without access to easily extractable resources invest in extended governance, reducing their risk of underworld conflict. This article illustrates this hypothesis in the comparative case study of the Colombian organized crime, supported by new quantitative data.
Additional information:
First published online: 04 March 2018
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70285
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/s12117-018-9330-2
ISSN: 1084-4791; 1936-4830
Publisher: Springer
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