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- Title
Organized crime-related disappearances in Mexico: evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila.
- Authors
Atuesta, Laura H.; González, Isaac Vargas
- Abstract
More than 77,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since the beginning of the war on drugs, but very little is known about them. After analyzing the descriptions of a non-randomized sample of disappearance registries from governmental data, we find that those events associated with organized crime are better understood by analyzing four factors: migration to the U.S. border and traveling on highways, gender differences and individual vs. multiple-victim disappearances, the forced recruitment of skilled and unskilled workers, and cooperation with the authorities. These results should be used as a starting point for pushing the government to release better data and to improve search mechanisms.
- Subjects
MEXICO; TAMAULIPAS (Mexico : State); DURANGO (Mexico : State); DRUG control; ORGANIZED crime; GENDER differences (Sociology); INDIVIDUAL differences; SKILLED labor; DATA release; TERRORIST recruiting
- Publication
Trends in Organized Crime, 2024, Vol 27, Issue 2, p148
- ISSN
1084-4791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12117-022-09452-3