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The logic of criminal territorial control : military intervention in Rio de Janeiro

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Date
01/04/2022
Author
Barnes, Nicholas
Keywords
Organized crime
Drug trafficking
Gangs
Military intervention
Territorial control
Ethnography
Rio de Janeiro
JZ International relations
E-NDAS
SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Abstract
How do organized criminal groups (OCGs) respond to military interventions intended to weaken and subdue them? In many cases, such crackdowns have proven counterproductive as OCGs militarize, engage in violence, and confront state forces directly. Existing studies have pointed to several explanations: inter-criminal competition, unconditional militarized approaches, and existing criminal governance arrangements. Much of this work, however, has focused on national, regional, or even municipal level variation and explanations. This article takes a micro-comparative approach based on 18 months of ethnographic research in a group of Rio de Janeiro favelas (impoverished and informal neighborhoods) divided between three drug trafficking gangs and occupied by the Brazilian military from 2014 to 2015. It argues that an active territorial threat from a rival is the primary mechanism leading OCGs to respond violently to military intervention. It also demonstrates that geographic patterns of recruitment play an important role in where OCG rivalries turn violent during intervention.
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Barnes , N 2022 , ' The logic of criminal territorial control : military intervention in Rio de Janeiro ' , Comparative Political Studies , vol. 55 , no. 5 , pp. 789-831 . https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140211036035
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Comparative Political Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140211036035
ISSN
0010-4140
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page.
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The fieldwork on which this article is based received generous funding from the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright Program.
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/00104140211036035
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23825

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