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ID087706
Title ProperBusting Drugs While Paying With Crime: The Collateral damage of U.S. drug enforcement in foreign countries
LanguageENG
AuthorBartilow, Horace A ;  Kihong Eom
Publication2009.
Summary / Abstract (Note)The "Americanization" of the global drug war is now synonymous with the global expansion of the United States (U.S.) Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) drug enforcement operations in foreign countries. Recent research posits that the rise in violent crime in Latin America is the "collateral damage" of the "Americanization" of drug enforcement in the region. However, the causal inference of the "collateral damage" thesis is biased because drug enforcement and violent crime in Latin America are endogenously related. This research corrects this bias in two ways. First, we collect data for cases to which the endogenous bias does not apply. Namely, we ask what effect does the operations of the DEA, specifically trafficker immobilization and drug interdiction, have on violent and property crimes in Central American and Caribbean countries where drug producing cartels and narco-insurgent organizations are not indigenous to the political landscape? Second, we estimate the data via a structural equation model. The results lend support to the collateral damage hypothesis. The DEA's coordinated drug enforcement operations contribute to increasing the level of violent and property crimes in the region.
`In' analytical NoteForeign Policy Analysis Vol. 5, No.2; Apr 2009: p93-116
Journal SourceForeign Policy Analysis Vol. 5, No.2; Apr 2009: p93-116
Key WordsDrug Enforcement ;  United States ;  Drug Interdiction