Why justice is unresponsive to crime: the case of cocaine in Colombia

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Borradores de Economía; No. 87

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1998-02-18

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1998-02-18

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Echeverry-Garzón, Juan Carlos
Partow, Zeinab

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In recent years, over ninety percent of all crimes in Colombia have gone unpunished. This paper addresses the reasons for this extreme unresponsiveness of the country's judicial system to high rates of violence, in particular since the end of the seventie

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H56 - National Security and War
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Analysis

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Crime , Cocaine , Colombia

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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5105
 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/5105
 https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/087.html
 https://doi.org/10.32468/be.87

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