| Sumario: | This is a study of urban Organized Crime in Mexico City. The article proposes a conceptual framework to understand the development of what is called urban criminal It also explains why these firms develop, what is their structure, their spaces and the limitations to expand into other areas of the metropolis and maintain market power. This paper proposes a new model to explain the way Organized Crime organizations work in Latin American cities. Their actions have a high impact in the cost of violence, the quality of life of their habitants and in the urban governance. The oc literature partially explains the articulation between the international market of products and illegal services and the local commerce. However, it doesn’t explain how the urban local organizations emerge and operate and which are their specificities. To solve this problem, I propose the concept urban criminal firm.
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