Abstract

CID FERREIRA, Lucia  and  LIZARRAGA, León. The smuggling linked to informal merchandise trade in the argentine northwest and its relationship with economic development . Delito soc. [online]. 2019, vol.28, n.48, pp.56-82. ISSN 0328-0101.  http://dx.doi.org/10.14409/DYs.v2I48/8544.

The paper was carried out within the framework of an investigation that seeks to answer the following questions: How is economic development related to the criminal question in Argentina? Have the economic «models» adopted in recent decades exerted a differentiated influence on the evolution of crime? How? This essay intends to move forward on a specific crime universe relatively different from that of common crimes: that of «economic crimes». These are those that, while being able to affect individual patrimony, are characterized by affecting the economic organization that governs a society. on this occasion, we address the crime of smuggling linked to the informal merchandise trade, with regard to the conflicts that occurred in northwestern Argentina. The current impossibility of having an adequate empirical basis to deal with this type of crime is recognized, which is why we try to find out, through secondary sources, the record of their social dynamics and the qualitative and quantitative data. Between the conclusions it is indicated that more important than the possible influence of the models, are the effects of the economic laws of the development of capitalism in the local and global frame.

Keywords : economic crime; economic models; smuggling; informal trade.

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