Filling The Void? Organized Crime and COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro

• In Event: Crime and Punishment

Brief Overview

We study how the presence of organized crime affect the intensity of COVID-19 epidemic using the city of Rio de Janeiro as a laboratory and find that the effect depends on the type of criminal governance controlling a certain area.

Authors

• Alexsandros Cavgias Martins Fraga, University of Barcelona

• Raphael Guinncio Bruce, Insper - Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa

• Luis Meloni, University of São Paulo