Titre : | The architecture of drug trafficking: network forms of organisation in the Colombian cocaine trade (2007) |
Titre traduit : | (L'architecture du trafic de drogue : les structures en réseau de l'organisation dans le commerce de la cocaïne colombienne) |
Auteurs : | KENNEY M. |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Global Crime (Vol.8, n°3, August 2007) |
Article en page(s) : | 233-259 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | MAR (Marchés / Markets) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés MARCHE DE LA DROGUE ; COCAINE ; TRAFIC ; ORGANISATION CRIMINELLE ; PRODUIT ILLICITE ; TRAFIC INTERNATIONALThésaurus géographique COLOMBIE |
Résumé : | For much of the past twenty-five years, the US-led war on drugs has been premised on a fundamental misunderstanding of Colombian drug trade. Instead of being run by a handful of massive, price-fixing 'cartels', the Colombian drug trade, then and now, was characterized by a fluid social system where flexible exchange networks expanded and retracted according to market opportunities and regulatory constraints. To support this interpretation, I draw on primary and secondary source data I collected in Colombia and the US, including interviews with several dozen hard-to-reach informants. I analyze these data to analyze the organisational form and functioning of 'Colombian' trafficking networks, focusing on how these illicit enterprises communicate, coordinate their activities, and make decisions, with an eye towards deflating some of the more persistent myths that have grown up around these transnational enterprises. (Author' s abstract) |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 52 |
Affiliation : | School of Public Affairs, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA, USA |
Numéro Toxibase : | 1302416 |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | Abonnement |
Lien : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17440570701507794 |
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