Book
Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Deters Criminal Wars in New Democracies. With Guillermo Trejo and Juan Albarracín. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming in 2026)
Journal Articles
Policing
“Law Enforcement at the Margin of the Law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico,” with Abby Córdova, Journal of Peace Research, 62(5): 1428–1446
“Mall Cop or Robocop? Political Determinants of Police Militarization in Brazil,” with Juan Albarracín, Political Research Quarterly, 77(4):1381–1396, 2024. Best Article Award from the Latin American Studies Association’s Section on Defense, Public Security and Intelligence 2025.
“Dilemmas of Substitution: Why the urban poor support punitive policing in a Latin American city,” OnlineFirst, with Veronica Perez Bentancur, Journal of Urban Affairs, 46(8), 1623–1643, 2024. Special Issue on Policing in the 21st Century.
“Police reform in the aftermath of armed conflict: How militarization and accountability affect police violence,” OnlineFirst, Journal of Peace Research, 61(3):383–397, 2023 . Open access.
“Breaking State Impunity in Post-Authoritarian Regimes: Why Transitional Justice processes deter criminal violence in new democracies” Journal of Peace Research, 55(6):787-809, 2018.
Criminal organizations
“From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence,” with Chelsea Estancona, International Organization, 79(3): 417–455.
“Uruguay 2023: Security as a Persistent Challenge and the Decline of Non-policy Politics as a Political Asset,” with Ines Fynn and Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Revista de Ciencia Política, 44(2):441–462, 2024. Open access.
“How Climate Change Affects Organized Criminal Group Behavior”, Studies in Comparative International Development, 58(1):29-54, 2023
Research design
“Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork,” Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Sociological Methods and Research, 53(2):729–759, 2022
“Transparency and Replicability in Mixed-Methods Designs using Experiments,” with Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Qualitative and Mixed-Methdos Research, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022, Vol. 19.2 / 20.1
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