Economic governance and homicide: Some theory and empirics, 1990–2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0022343320962566
Abstract: This article posits that free-market institutions and practices reduce economic distortions that provide rents for underground organizations, which ultimately form criminogenic environments. Rents from market distortions provide ‘lootable income’ that feeds ‘criminal organizations’, which rely… read more here.
Keywords: homicide; governance homicide; theory empirics; political legitimacy ... See more keywords