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Drug Cartels

By: Jeffery T. Walker & Joseph B. McSherry
In: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
Edited by: Helen Taylor Greene & Shaun L. Gabbidon
Subject:Race, Ethnicity & Crime, Ethnic Studies
Keywords:cartels; cocaine; drug cartels; drug trade; drugs; Jamaican posses; posses

Since the 1980s, much of the trafficking of drugs to the United States was, and is, attributed to the drug cartels of Colombia. Through the use of violence and established smuggling routes into the United States, Colombian cartels controlled much of ...

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  Walker, J., & McSherry, J. (2009). Drug cartels. In H. T. Greene, & S. L. Gabbidon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of race and crime (pp. 224-225). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971928.n92
  
  Walker, Jeffery T., and Joseph B. McSherry. "Drug Cartels." In Encyclopedia of Race and Crime, edited by Greene, Helen Taylor., and Shaun L. Gabbidon, 224-25. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971928.n92.
  
  Walker, J. and McSherry, J. 2009. Drug Cartels. In: Helen T. Greene and Shaun L. Gabbidon Editors, 2009. Encyclopedia of Race and Crime, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 224-225 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971928.n92> [Accessed 16 Jun 2021].
  
  Walker, Jeffery T. and Joseph B. McSherry. "Drug Cartels." Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. Edited by Helen T. Greene and Shaun L. Gabbidon. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009, pp. 224-25. SAGE Knowledge. 16 Jun 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971928.n92.
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