Strategic Offending: Colombia’s Part-Time Child Drug Traffickers and Their Community, City and Country Lines
Mathew H. Charles
Abstract:Through participatory research and creative auto/biography, in particular, this article highlights how young offenders in southwestern Colombia live at home, go to school and fit in the trafficking of cannabis in their spare time. This part-time participation in criminal networks becomes part of a deliberate plan to succeed and confront positions of socio-economic hardship and emotional precarity. This strategic offending in the region of Cauca with its protracted violence and alternative social order constitu… Show more
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