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Drug Trafficking and Violence in Central America and Beyond / Gabriel Demombynes.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Demombynes, Gabriel.
- Series:
- World Bank e-Library.
- World Development Report Background Papers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accounting.
- Adolescent Health.
- Armed Forces.
- Bribery.
- Children and Youth.
- Cocaine.
- Conflict.
- Conflict and Development.
- Conflict Resolution.
- Corruption.
- Corruption & anticorruption Law.
- Courts.
- Crime and Society.
- Drugs.
- Gangs.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Heroin.
- Human Rights.
- International Law.
- Judiciary.
- Law and Development.
- Law Enforcement.
- Leadership.
- Marijuana.
- Money Laundering.
- Mortality.
- Organized Crime.
- Penalties.
- Post Conflict Reconstruction.
- Public Health.
- Public officials.
- Public Opinion.
- Roads.
- Social Development.
- Treaties.
- Violence.
- Youth.
- Local Subjects:
- Accounting.
- Adolescent Health.
- Armed Forces.
- Bribery.
- Children and Youth.
- Cocaine.
- Conflict.
- Conflict and Development.
- Conflict Resolution.
- Corruption.
- Corruption & anticorruption Law.
- Courts.
- Crime and Society.
- Drugs.
- Gangs.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Heroin.
- Human Rights.
- International Law.
- Judiciary.
- Law and Development.
- Law Enforcement.
- Leadership.
- Marijuana.
- Money Laundering.
- Mortality.
- Organized Crime.
- Penalties.
- Post Conflict Reconstruction.
- Public Health.
- Public officials.
- Public Opinion.
- Roads.
- Social Development.
- Treaties.
- Violence.
- Youth.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2011.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper examines the relationship between narcotics trafficking and violence in Central America. The first part of the paper addresses particular questions posed for the 2011 World Development Report and examines several competing hypothesis on the drivers of crime in Central America. A key finding is that areas exposed to intense narcotics trafficking in Central America suffer from higher homicide rates. Drug trafficking has corrupted state institutions, which have been overwhelmed by the resources deployed by trafficking organizations. The second part of the paper reviews the reasons drug trafficking and anti trafficking enforcement are associated with violence in general and consider policy options.
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