Drug trade and governance in Cape Town
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2014-09
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Institute for Security Studies
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Criminal governance is an effect of narcotics becoming so entrenched in a country’s economy that the functioning of the economic and political system becomes beholden to drug finance and often drug dealers. Intense corruption follows state institutional failure. In order to continue the drug business, those who are meant to be limiting the drug business become actively involved with it. A network approach allows for the analysis of interactions of criminals with one another, other criminal networks, independent merchants, and those in the legitimate realm, including money launderers, corrupt law enforcement officials, politicians and those that provide a legitimate ‘front’ for criminals.
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SOCIAL STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE, ORGANIZED CRIME, INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF VIOLENCE, CORRUPTION, SOUTH AFRICA--CAPE TOWN, DRUG TRAFFICKING, VULNERABLE GROUPS