Organized Against Crime
The Georgetown Americas Institute is pleased to be a part of the support network of the initiative Organized Against Crime.
Latin America and the Caribbean faces the highest levels of violence in the world—bearing a disproportionate share of global homicides despite representing a small share of the world’s population. Violence takes multiple forms, but in recent decades organized crime linked to illicit markets has become a leading driver, while remaining under-studied and too often disconnected from broader development debates.
This initiative brings together leading think tanks, policymakers, multilaterals, representatives of the civil society, and scholars in a multi-year collaboration to generate timely, policy-relevant knowledge on criminal violence in the region, with a focus on organized crime. Their website hosts the resulting policy documents, notes, and research outputs.
They organized the research and publication of the following eight policy documents:
- The Growing Threat of Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Drugs and Anti-Drug Policies in Latin America: Successes, Failures, and Wrong Turns
- From Schools of Crime to Criminal Hubs? Prisons and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Criminal Governance in Latin America
- The Complex Link between Migration and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
- The Role of the Financial System in Criminal Organizations, Money Laundering, and the Design of Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) Policies: Striking a Balance between Prosecution and Prevention
- Policing Organized Crime in Latin America
- Justice Systems and Organized Crime in Latin America: Five Areas for Improvement
They also organized the publication of one policy note:
Learn more at the Organized Against Crime website.