CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Iacurti Salcedo, Luigi Francesco |
|---|---|
| Title | Dynamics of Organised Crime in Latin America: Assessing the Role of Petty Corruption on the Proliferation of Organised Crime Violence |
| Summary | This thesis evaluates the relationship between petty corruption and organised crime (OC) violence in Latin America. By employing a sequential explanatory mixed methods design, this study analyses panel data from 18 Latin American countries as well as court records, and newspaper articles related to Los Monos in Argentina and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in Brazil to evaluate the relationship between the frequency of bribes to the police on Homicide rates and the mechanisms that drives it. In the quantitative strand, an ordinary least squares (OLS) model is used to evaluate how the relationship between police bribery and homicides presents itself in Latin America. In the qualitative strand, the findings of the quantitative analysis are further developed as a process tracing within case studies is employed to unpack the mechanisms that drive this relationship by focusing on the cases of Los Monos and PCC. This study found that contrary to the expectation, there is a negative relationship between petty corruption and OC violence, as criminal organisations use bribes to capture law enforcement agencies and create a monopolisation of violence. |
| Supervisor | Fazekas, Mihály |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/iacurti_luigi.pdf |
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