Pandemic, Criminal Governance and Mechanisms of Social and Economic Regulation in Three Latin American Contexts

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15nesp4.46488

Keywords:

criminal governance, armed actors, crime, Latin America, Covid-19

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a series of adversities not only in people’s lives but also in cities and their forms of territorial organization. How has it interfered with the mechanisms of social and economic regulation of crime in Latin America? This paper compares three urban contexts where the regulation of armed actors has become important and criminal governance has reached a certain degree of stability or sophistication. Taking the pandemic as a turning point, we compare possible transformations related to mechanisms of regulation used by illegal armed groups in the peripheries of large cities or centers of power in Colombia and Brazil. 

Author Biographies

Daniel Bonilla-Calle, Ceipa Business School

Líder acadêmico do programa de Gestão de Negócios Internacionais  da Ceipa Business School (Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colômbia). É mestre em estudos internacionais pela Université de Montréal (UdeM, Montreal, Canadá) e graduado em geografia e história pela   Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA, Medellín, Colombia).

Emerson do Nascimento, Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Professor do Instituto de Ciências Sociais e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia (PPGS) da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Ufal, Maceió, Brasil). É doutor e mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política (PPGCP) da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE, Recife, Brasil) e graduado em história pela Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE, Recife, Brasil).

Marcela Maria Vergara Arias, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Professora associada da Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB, Medellín, Colômbia).

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Published

2022-06-21

Issue

Especial 4 - ‘Governança Criminal na América Latina em Perspectiva Comparada’

Section

Comparações transnacionais

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