Organized crime

Peer-reviewed articles

Forthcoming. "Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus." Terrorism and Political Violence. Co-authored with Alexander Schiele.

2023. “Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Criminal Groups in Mexico.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 67 (9): 1675-1703. Co-authored with Ana Carolina Garriga.  Stata replication data and do-file.  The data contains new information on the number of criminal groups in each state from 2000-2018.

2020. "Narco-messages: Competition and public communication by criminal groups. Latin American Politics and Society 62 (1): 1-24. Co-authored with Viridiana Ríos. Paper.

2018. "Terrorist Tactics by Criminal Organizations: The Mexican Case in Context." Perspectives on Terrorism 12 (1): 46-63. Paper.

2017. "Inequality and the Emergence of Vigilante Organizations: The Case of Mexican Autodefensas." Comparative Political Studies 50 (10): 1358-1389. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file. Online appendix with additional information.

2015. "How Does Leadership Decapitation Affect Violence? The Case of Drug Trafficking Organizations in Mexico." Journal of Politics 77 (2): 324-336. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file.

***Additional data used to create the Stata file above for the reported models: State-year data on geographic territory of drug-trafficking organizations 2006-2012, data on DTO leaders killed or arrested 2006-2012, and documentation describing these files. 

See the data page for additional data on criminal group territory in Mexico.