Crime

Readings

Required

  •   David Skarbek “Governance and Prison Gangs,” American Political Science Review 105, no. 4 (2011): 702–716.
  •   Chapter 7 and Chapter 15 in Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021).

Personal recommendations

  • Regina Bateson “Crime Victimization and Political Participation,” American Political Science Review (2012).
  • Benjamin Lessing “Logics of Violence in Criminal War,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 59, no. 8 (2015): 1486–1516.
  • Maria Micaela Sviatschi “Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths,” Econometrica 90, no. 4 (2022): 1835–1878.
  •   Mancur Olson “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development,” American Political Science Review 87, no. 3 (1993): 567–576.

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