LUCÍA TISCORNIA
Criminal Market Capture
Drug markets are the most profitable illicit markets, why do criminal organizations seek to capture the market for shellfish, avocados, or lemons?
Peer Reviewed Publications:
"How Climate Change Affects Organized Criminal Group Behavior", Studies in Comparative International Development, 58(1):29-54, 2023
Work in progress:
"From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Capture", with Chelsea Estancona
"Supply Chain Disruptions and Criminal Governance in Mexico," with Chelsea Estancona
Criminal Governance Strategies
Criminal governance--de facto control of different aspects of populations' lives, economic, political, social--encompasses a wide variety of strategies, some are violent, others are not, what explains this variation?
Work in progress:
"Criminal Governance Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico", with Tiago Ventura and Sandra Ley
"Criminal Governance in Uruguay", with Gustavo Diaz, Ines Fynn, and Veronica Perez
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