Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels

Research demonstrates that service provision by violent organizations can be an effective strategy for coercing the local community to accept and conceal a group’s violent activities, and for creating loyalty to these groups. This has been most frequently explored among political organizations such...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shawn T. Flanigan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Henley-Putnam University 2014-10-01
Series:Journal of Strategic Security
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol7/iss3/5/