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Guns, Gun Violence and Gun HomicidesUnderstanding Haiti’s Current Phenomenon of Gang Violence and Illicit Arms Trafficking: A View from the Lens of Vertical-Horizontal Violence

Guns, Gun Violence and Gun Homicides: Understanding Haiti’s Current Phenomenon of Gang Violence... [This book chapter seeks to understand the current proliferation of gang violence associated with illicit arms trafficking and predominantly urban street gangs hired by economic and political entrepreneurs, using Warnecke-Berger’s concept of vertical-horizontal violence. Vertical violence is a form of violence developed in disparities of power between the elite and the subaltern class. Horizontal violence is defined in terms of the most organized form of violence between factions and/or segments of the elites in parallel to the reciprocal use of violence between segments of the subaltern groups (Warnecke-Berger, Hannes. (2019). Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean.). The rationale is that very few studies have sought to provide the Haitian political research on gang studies with a better relational approach to explain the current proliferation of illegal guns and various sources of violence that tends to worsen Haiti’s current chronic insecurity and political deadlock. Basically, this chapter discusses the fragmented elite groups ‘vertical-horizontal violence strategies under at least two different conditions: rent-seeking and anarchic situations. The central argument is that Haiti’s proliferation of gang-related vertical-horizontal violence is a function of the rent-seeking and anarchic conditions influencing fragmented elites and ruling classes’ long-ranged political and economic objectives. With that in mind, we expect to contribute to the literature of Caribbean Political Studies a new paradigm in order to understand the phenomenon of illicit distribution of firearms in Haiti’s ghettos and the gangsterization of the Haitian state within the larger body of the Global South literature.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Guns, Gun Violence and Gun HomicidesUnderstanding Haiti’s Current Phenomenon of Gang Violence and Illicit Arms Trafficking: A View from the Lens of Vertical-Horizontal Violence

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society Book Series
Editors: Wallace, Wendell C.
Noel, Guyma; Pierre-Louis, Evenson
Guns, Gun Violence and Gun Homicides — Dec 12, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-84517-9
Pages
161 –187
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84518-6_7
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Abstract

[This book chapter seeks to understand the current proliferation of gang violence associated with illicit arms trafficking and predominantly urban street gangs hired by economic and political entrepreneurs, using Warnecke-Berger’s concept of vertical-horizontal violence. Vertical violence is a form of violence developed in disparities of power between the elite and the subaltern class. Horizontal violence is defined in terms of the most organized form of violence between factions and/or segments of the elites in parallel to the reciprocal use of violence between segments of the subaltern groups (Warnecke-Berger, Hannes. (2019). Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean.). The rationale is that very few studies have sought to provide the Haitian political research on gang studies with a better relational approach to explain the current proliferation of illegal guns and various sources of violence that tends to worsen Haiti’s current chronic insecurity and political deadlock. Basically, this chapter discusses the fragmented elite groups ‘vertical-horizontal violence strategies under at least two different conditions: rent-seeking and anarchic situations. The central argument is that Haiti’s proliferation of gang-related vertical-horizontal violence is a function of the rent-seeking and anarchic conditions influencing fragmented elites and ruling classes’ long-ranged political and economic objectives. With that in mind, we expect to contribute to the literature of Caribbean Political Studies a new paradigm in order to understand the phenomenon of illicit distribution of firearms in Haiti’s ghettos and the gangsterization of the Haitian state within the larger body of the Global South literature.]

Published: Dec 12, 2021

Keywords: Horizontalization; Insecurity; Arms trafficking; Ghettos; Homicides

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