1. The youngest Victims.
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COCA , *CRIMES against children , *DRUGS & crime , *DRUG traffic , *CRIMINALS , *CRIME victims - Abstract
The article discusses how a shift in coca production pushed Peruvian children towards crime. Topics include overdoses by consumers and violence among traffickers and dealers; a recent paper by Maria Micaela Sviatschi of Princeton University that shows that demand for coca leaves, from which cocaine is produced, pushed a generation of children in Peru out of school and into lives of crime; and incentive to coca farmer that declined the production.
- Published
- 2022