Politicised crime: causes for the discursive politicisation of organised crime in Latin America

Figures & data

Figure 1. Mechanism of crime politicisation.

Source: Elaborated by the authors.

Table 1. QCA truth table

Case	State capacityStatecap	Role in the drug trafficking production chainDrugprod	Armed compe-tionArmcomp	Securitisa-tionSecuritis	Trajectory of the criminal leader-shipsLeadtraj	Outcome: Politicisation
Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia	0	1	1	1	1	1
Militarizado Partido Comunista del Perú	0	1	0	1	1	1
Primeiro Comando da Capital	0	0	0	1	1	1
Los Rastrojos	0	1	1	1	0	0
Tren de Aragua	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cartel de Sinaloa	1	0	1	1	0	0
# Implicants: 4
statecap*drugprod*SECURITIS	0	Primeiro Comando da Capital
DRUGPROD*armcomp	0	Militarizado Partido Comunista del Perú
armcomp*SECURITIS	0	Primeiro Comando da Capital,Militarizado Partido Comunista del Perú
SECURITIS*LEADTRAJ	0	Primeiro Comando da Capital,Militarizado Partido Comunista del Perú, Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia
# Solutions: 1
SECURITIS*LEADTRAJ

Source: Elaborated by the authors.

Figure 2. Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia timeline.

Source: Elaborated by the authors.

Figure 3. Militarizado Partido Comunista del Perú timeline.

Source: Elaborated by the authors.