Abstract
As narco-business expands and law enforcers become weaker, several “part-time” members of large organizations (security guards, transporters, etc) “diversify” the criminal “portfolio” by engaging in abductions, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, car thefts and other “profitable” business. This chapter studies the diversification of criminal "portfolios" of drug kingpins, and the rising levels of violence and corruption.
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There are methodological debates on the accuracy of this statistic which is calculated by extrapolating the findings of a national annual survey of 90,000 people. Since kidnapping is a “rare event,” it is difficult to obtain an accurate estimate, even in surveys with large samples. The confidence interval can be extremely wide, affecting the accuracy of the findings.
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Bergman, M. (2018). Criminal Diversification and Corruption in the Drug Business. In: Illegal Drugs, Drug Trafficking and Violence in Latin America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73153-7_5
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