Illicit Partners and Political Development: How Organized Crime Made the State

Koivu, Kendra

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“…To lump criminal governance in with other forms of non-state governance elides its most intriguing characteristics: simultaneously born of, shaped by, in opposition to-but in subtle ways complementing-state power. "Born of" because legislating, and hence outlawing, is a primordial state function (Koivu 2018); states may fight crime, but they create "the criminal." "Shaped by" because virtually all state actions, from policing to zoning, from infrastructure provision to welfare policy, have substantial effects on criminal groups' incentives and capacity to provide governance.…”

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“…Conversely, criminal governance can lead to reduced state repression, in part by being useful to states. Recent scholarship has identified cooperative crime-state arrangements based on corruption, alliance against other armed threats, or outright crime-state integration (Barnes 2017;Koivu 2018;Snyder and Durán-Martínez 2009). Criminal governance points to distinct, "symbiotic" relationships (Adorno and Dias 2016;Denyer Willis 2009).…”

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“…Historically, state formation often depended crucially on collaboration with, and absorption of, criminal groups (e.g., Andreas 2013;Barkey 1994;Koivu 2018). In the modern era, and particularly in the context of a global war on drugs, the criminal domain has been cordoned off in important ways from the state.…”

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“…Such assertions may be accurate in specific cases, but they overlook a central fact: criminal governance occurs in settings where states-often quite powerful statesalready exist. Indeed, states determine what is criminal, a precondition for the rise of COs (Koivu 2018). By definition, COs face some degree of state repression, repression which often structures the very spaces they govern: illicit markets and prisons are prime examples.…”

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Conceptualizing Criminal Governance

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In informal urban areas throughout the developing world, and even in some US and UK neighborhoods, tens if not hundreds of millions of people live under some form of criminal governance. For them, states’ claims of a monopoly on the use of force ring hollow; for many issues, a local criminal organization is the relevant authority. Yet the state is far from absent: residents may pay taxes, vote, and even inform on gangs as punishment for abusive behavior. Criminal governance flourishes in pockets of low state presence, but ones that states can generally enter at will, if not always without violence. It thus differs from state, corporate, and rebel governance because it is embedded within larger domains of state power. I develop a conceptual framework centered around the who, what, and how of criminal governance, organizing extant research and proposing a novel dimension: charismatic versus rational-bureaucratic forms of criminal authority. I then delineate the logics that may drive criminal organizations to provide governance for non-members, establishing building blocks for future theory-building and -testing. Finally, I explore how criminal governance intersects with the state, refining the concept of crime–state “symbiosis” and distinguishing it from neighboring concepts in organized-crime and drug-violence scholarship.

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“…Segundo o autor, a base é enviesada a fontes de criminologia e de justiça criminal, raramente apresentando definições provenientes de outras áreas do conhecimento como história e economia. Seus resultados são analisados em dois grupos: estrutura e atividades do crime organizado (VARESE, 2010;2017). contra o Crime Organizado Transnacionalmais conhecida como Convenção de Palermo (2000) 34 e a criação de seu Comitê ad hoc.…”

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A economia do crime organizado e mercados ilícitos no Brasil: um estudo de caso sobre o Primeiro Comando da Capital

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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar qualitativamente como o comportamento geral das organizações criminosas são moldadas pelos incentivos presentes nos mercados ilícitos nos quais atuam. Combinada às estatísticas gerais de crime e aos materiais secundários, a avaliação empírica se constrói com base nas evidências produzidas pelo Sistema de Justiça Criminal a partir de casos judiciais em desfavor de policiais corruptos e criminosos organizados. Baseado nas Teorias Econômicas do Crime Organizado, propõe-se estudar o crime organizado como firma ilícita produtora e reguladora de proteção privada em áreas onde a presença estatal, via suas instituições, é ausente, fraca ou incompleta. Para isso, apresenta-se um estudo de caso sobre a organização criminosa auto intitulada Primeiro Comando da Capital, a fim de analisar descritivamente como seu comportamento geral é moldado pelos mercados ilícitos que atua, nominalmente o tráfico de drogas ilícitas no Estado de São Paulo entre 2011 e 2019, e como promove seu negócio de proteção, para encontrar a demanda de diversas outras firmas ilícitas e indivíduos que atuam na ilegalidade, mas que são incapazes de se auto protegerem dos riscos associados às suas atividades ilegais.

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Illicit Partners and Political Development: How Organized Crime Made the State

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

Conceptualizing Criminal Governance

Conceptualizing Criminal Governance

A economia do crime organizado e mercados ilícitos no Brasil: um estudo de caso sobre o Primeiro Comando da Capital

How Climate Change Affects Organized Criminal Group Behavior

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