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English Abstract: Colombia focuses relevant resources to pursue the crime of possession, manufacture and trafficking of … bureaucrats involved in the legal process. We estimate the expected cost of an arrest resulting from this crime and, from this … international drug trafficking, crime related to local markets and consumption, or an effort to deter drug users. We conclude that …
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Spanish Abstract: El aumento en el área cultivada con coca en Colombia ha generado dudas con respecto a la estrategia antinarcóticos del país, y ha estimulado el escepticismo con respecto a las posibilidades de lograr una paz completa y definitiva. Asimismo, la percepción de fracaso ha dado...
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The increase in the area cultivated with coca in Colombia has cast doubt on the country's anti-drug strategy and has encouraged skepticism about the possibility of a complete and definitive peace. Furthermore, this perception of failure has given rise to policy proposals based on the idea that...
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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC. The price of cocaine hydrochloride increases exponentially from the observed …
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This paper uses a natural experiment to identify the impact of a judicial system reform on police behavior. The study … adolescents in most misdemeanor crimes decreased due to a change in police behavior. The magnitude of this effect ranged between 0 … disciplinary sanctions led police officials to reduce arrest rates. Nonetheless, police forces learned gradually how to operate …
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Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo examina el impacto de la institución colonial de la Encomienda sobre la violencia del conflicto armado del siglo XX en Colombia. A pesar de haber sido una institución extractiva, hay evidencia que muestra que las regiones en donde estuvo presente desarrollaron...
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affected crime by increasing the patrol police’s sense of accountability to the population and also possibly through higher …The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the … eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities into small …
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We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian … produce event studies to look at the effects of shocks in police activity in the periods to follow. We use spikes in the … number of arrests with no warrant -which are more likely associated with unplanned police presence- as a proxy for shocks in …
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