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SUMMARY:CLACS Seminar: Lucía Tiscornia (University College Dublin): Crimi
 nal Governance in Unexpected Places: The case of Uruguay 
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DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Lat
 in American and Caribbean Studies.\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A T
 HURSDAY\, STARTS AT 4PM AND IS NOT IN THE SAM ALEXANDER BUILDING\n\n\nTH
 URSDAY 26 Feb 2026\, 4pm (UK time). This event will be in person\, in Ma
 nsfield Cooper 4.05. It can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com
 /yzm5d7k2\n\nAbstract: Many studies of criminal governance in Latin Amer
 ica tend to focus on countries with powerful criminal organizations and 
 high levels of state coercive capacity. However\, evidence increasingly 
 shows that criminal governance also exists in unexpected settings—places
  where criminal groups are not as powerful and state presence is extende
 d beyond security policies. Focusing on the city of Montevideo\, Uruguay
 \, this paper examines how criminal governance is shaped under these con
 ditions. We employ a mixed-methods design\, combining in-depth interview
 s with community leaders\, members of NGOs\, state and local authorities
 \, and a public opinion survey containing direct and indirect questionin
 g techniques. We find that criminal governance in Montevideo is more ext
 ensive than expected\, but its scope is still limited. Criminal organiza
 tions develop violent and nonviolent practices\, but these practices rel
 ate to the control of illicit drug markets\, and do not extend into poli
 tical or broader social governance. Neighborhood residents perceive some
  forms of violence—especially assault and shoot outs—as relatively likel
 y. Yet\, they continue to view state institutions\, particularly securit
 y agencies\, as the primary problem-solvers where they live\, and rarely
  rely on or trust criminal actors. These findings suggest that criminal 
 governance varies systematically across contexts. In the case of Montevi
 deo\, it emerges in a narrow\, market-centered form rather than the more
  expansive versions researchers observe elsewhere. These findings point 
 towards the need for conceptual frameworks that capture variation across
  contexts. \n\n\nLucía Tiscornia is Assistant Professor in the School of
  Politics and International Relations and a Fellow with the Geary Instit
 ute for Public Policy at University College Dublin
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LOCATION:4.05\, Mansfield Cooper Building\, Manchester
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