Transnational Organized Crime Dynamics during the pandemic: Adaptive and resilient behaviors
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https://doi.org/10.25062/1900-8325.246Keywords:
Transnational Organized Crime, Pandemic, Coronavirus, Adaptation, ResistanceAbstract
The socio-economic and health crisis generated by the coronavirus pandemic brought with it a series of measures by the different governments of the world to mitigate the situation; these measures would affect the entire society as a whole. Transnational Organized Crime was no exception, the different criminal groups had to restructure their organizations to stabilize and enhance the opportunities that were generated because of the situation. Through recent academic findings on Transnational Organized Crime, this text makes a descriptive analysis of the adaptation of criminal dynamics to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
Author Biographies
Vicente Torrijos Rivera, Colombian War College
Periodista. Magister en Estudios Políticos. Posgraduado en Altos Estudios Internacionales. Profesor emérito y analista político. Es actualmente profesor investigador de la ESDEG, Colombia, y profesor adjunto de la Universidad Nacional de la Defensa, Centro William Perry, Washington DC, Estados Unidos. Contacto: vicentetorrijos@hotmail.com y/o vicente.torrijos@esdegue.edu.co
Iván Felipe Marín Osorio, Comisión Colombiana del Océano, Colombia
Internacionalista y politólogo de la Universidad del Rosario. Especialista en Dirección y Gestión de Proyectos, y magister en Gobierno y Administración Pública de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. Asesor en Asuntos Políticos de la Comisión Colombiana del Océano. Contacto: ivan0325marin@hotmail.com
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