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Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of ...

CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Rising Violence June S. Beittel Analyst in Latin American Affairs September 7, 2011 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R41576

Drug Trafficking, Violence, and the State in Mexico

April 2009 Drug Trafficking, Violence, and the State in Mexico Dr. Phil Williams Strategic Studies Institute Headlines and television commentaries about Mexico becoming a failed state as a result of drug-related violence have become a dime a dozen.

gangs; drug law offenses; juvenil justice

Until quite recently, however, we lacked the data necessary for a clear understanding of the nature and complexity of youth gangs and their involvement with drug trafficking.

DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS AND COUNTER-DRUG STRATEGIES IN ...

31 DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS AND COUNTER-DRUG STRATEGIES IN THE U.S.-MEXICAN CONTEXT Luis Astorga and David A. Shirk OVERVIEW The proliferation and impunity of organized crime groups involved in drug traffick

Drug Trafficking Organizations and Counter- Drug Strategies ...

USMEX WP 10-01 Drug Trafficking Organizations and Counter-Drug Strategies in the U.S.-Mexican Context Luis Astorga and David A. Shirk Mexico and the United States: Confronting the Twenty-First Century This working paper is part of a project seeking to provide an up-to-date assessment of key ...

DRUG TRAFFICKING AS A SECURITY THREAT IN WEST AFRICA

Acknowledgements This report was prepared by the Studies and Threat Analysis Section and the Regional Office for Western and Central Africa of UNODC in the context of the segment of UNODC's Trends Monitoring and Analysis Programme dedicated to Africa and funded by France and Sweden.

DRUG TRAFFICKING: AN ALARMING HUMAN SECURITY THREAT Authors ...

1 WARN POLICY BRIEF WEST AFRICA DRUG TRAFFICKING: AN ALARMING HUMAN SECURITY THREAT Authors: Andrew Goodwin, Intern at WANEP Regional Secretariat

Mexico and the United States: Neighbors Confront Drug Trafficking

NIJ Publications Mexico and the United States: Neighbors Confront Drug Trafficking James O. Finckenauer, Ph.D. International Center National Institute of Justice Joseph R. Fuentes City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice George L. Ward International Center National ...

Chapter I: Introduction and Research Design

Drug Trafficking in Weak States: The Case of Central Asia Chapter I: Introduction and Research Design

on transit countries: The case of cocaine

231 3.0 The destabilizing influence of drug trafficking on transit countries: The case of cocaine In the past decade, the United Nations has come to recognize the relationship between political instability and organized crime, particularly drug trafficking.