1. Introduction: Drug Markets and Violence in Recife, Brazil -- 2. Islands of Peace: Middle-Class Drug Markets -- 3 … functioning of drug markets in Recife, the largest metropolitan area in Brazil’s North-East and, over the last 25 years, the heart … exclusion and discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this volume show that the association between illegality …

Illegality in the Economy (Beckert and Dewey, 2017) and Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality: Evidence from a Brazilian …

The article comments on a new generation of researchers studying the illegal markets in Brazil. In doing so, I … summarize the interpretative model of ‘social accumulation of violence’. Initially applied to Rio de Janeiro, several … researchers have now expanded it to other Brazilian states as well as to countries with high violence rates, such as Colombia and …

Puzzled about why and how coca-growing areas in Bolivia do not have the same levels of violence and criminality … interactions with both state and market structures appear as a key factor in mitigating violence and criminal activity. Second …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …

The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict …. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys, we estimate the impact of violence on migration at the municipal … and state levels. To account for the endogeneity of violence, we use kilometers of federal highways interacted with …