Incarceration is a crucial part of the scholarly analysis of crime, but what happens inside penal institutions largely … (CDA) but avoid classification as illegal and detection in standard drug tests. To conduct the analysis, I have assembled a … seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large …

Drug traffickers sometimes share profits peacefully. Other times they fight. We propose a model to investigate this … profits fuel violence. Killing kingpins makes crime bosses short-sighted, also fueling conflict. Only by targeting the most … violence in drug war, which is less studied than interstate or civil war but often as deadly …

The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict …. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006 … pre-existing drug distribution networks, and the interaction with supply shocks arising in Colombia captures the time …

in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …

in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …