Mexico's drug 'war'produced 100,000 deaths between 2006 and 2012. The extreme
violence has raised the notion that M exico has become a failed state wracked by terrorism …

Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico's security, violent drug-trafficking
organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been …

Objectives Research consistently shows that crime concentrates on a few repeatedly
victimized places and targets. In this paper we examine whether the same is true for …

Reducing Drug Violence in Mexico: Options for Implementing Targeted Enforceme Page 1
The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the US Department of Justice …

The article explores the intersections of drug trafficking and community welfare in Costa
Rica, a national context that is underexplored in literature. I use an immersive qualitative …

Violence by and against drug dealers causes havoc, from the streets of United States cities
to source and transit countries including Afghanistan, Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia …

Illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP) is often facilitated by corruption and in some cases
helps terrorism financing. Enforcement against ITTP is vital but involves tradeoffs among …

The inability of governments to deliver human security to their citizenries has often driven
ambitious programmes of security sector reform (SSR). SSR programmes hold effectiveness …

This project analyzes the collective identity and narratives surrounding the culture of the
drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), or narcocultura, in Mexico. It questions whether the …

More than 55,000 people were killed in Mexico's vicious drug wars between 2006 and 2011.
The Pentagon's Joint Operating Environment Paper 2008 speculated that the country was …