Crackdowns may suppress some forms of gang activity without dismantling their economic structures.
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Shooters are becoming freelance contractors. Their target’s ideology is entirely irrelevant to them and their involvement is purely transactional.
An increase of just 0.03% in illegal gold mining is associated with a 20 to 46% increase in the local incidence of malaria in Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
The Ontario probe into police corruption allows police forces to safeguard their institutional image.
Illegal wildlife trade is one of the largest criminal activities in the world and some black markets are growing each year. Canada’s response remains inadequately prioritized and under-resourced.
Longtime mob reporter George Anastasia explains how intensive electronic eavesdropping revealed dialogue that surpassed Hollywood scripts.
The State Department declared Tren de Aragua a terrorist organization, and news reports say its members are wreaking havoc across the country. The reality is more nuanced.
Rather than ‘offshoring’ criminals to the US, Venezuelan government policies have both consolidated gangs and created volatile pacts with them.
Under President Daniel Noboa, the prisons have been declared “security zones” and are under the direct control of the police and military. If re-elected, Noboa promises to continue doing the same, despite the problems this type of policy causes
Regulating drugs may seem radical, but taking the production and sale of currently illegal drugs away from organized crime and drug cartels is the most promising way to keep our communities safe.
Civil forfeiture laws and unexplained wealth orders seem to be less about crime control than an exercise in public funding.
Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
Federal and state RICO charges, which target racketeering, have been applied to a wide range of crimes committed by politicians and business people over the past few decades.
Mexico’s crime epidemic continues to worsen, as poverty and inequality also grow in the country.
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will end land clearance in Brazil’s Amazon region. But powerful forces profit from rainforest destruction.
A new analysis of this type of fraud shows it’s a growing problem that almost half of Americans consider an ‘acceptable’ crime.
Organized crime gangs in Southeast Asia use psychological profiling, elaborate scripts and algorithms to produce sophisticated scams. Using dating apps, they target vulnerable people looking for love.
Land grabs spearheaded by wealthy interests are accelerating deforestation, and Brazil’s National Congress is working to legitimize them.
Gangs have changed in the decades since ‘West Side Story’ first came out – they are deadlier, and their demographics are different – as are the means law enforcement use to control them.
A series of brazen, highly visible attacks by Mexican drug cartels have killed at least 50 people in the past month, terrorizing citizens and making the government look weak on crime.
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Sociology and Criminology, University of Florida
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Ph.D., Associate research scientist, University of Florida
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Professor of Geography, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Georgia
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Sociologist, Ethnology Department, Université d'Etat d'Haiti
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Cybercrime, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor at University of Milan and Executive Director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at Bocconi University, Bocconi University
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Assistant Professor - Human Environment Systems, Boise State University
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Assistant Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Chair of Criminal Justice, Colorado State University Global
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Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute