NCJ Number
145231
Journal
Crime, Law, and Social Change Volume: 20 Issue: 1 Dated: (July 1993) Pages: 13-51
Date Published
1993
Length
39 pages
Annotation
The black market operations of a model guerrilla movement evolve through three stages, with parallel changes in group expenditure responsibilities and fundraising activities.
Abstract
In the first stage, the group engages in random attacks against individual symbols of the State, either officials or institutions such as police stations and army outposts. The group's expenditures are mainly related to its military activities and funds are raised through bank robberies and kidnapping, methods that approximate those of blue-collar criminals. In the second stage, the guerrillas begin to openly dispute the State's political power by staging low-intensity warfare against the economic infrastructure. The group has need for more cash to finance its military operations and to support its dependents; funds are raised through ongoing parasitical activities that resemble the methods of an organized crime group. In the third stage, the guerrillas successfully implant themselves on a piece of territory over which the State has no power. The group is now responsible for providing social services and building a parallel economic infrastructure. The most important source of revenue at this point comes from indirect taxation; the guerrillas will launder any excess funds, in much the same manner as white- collar criminals. 72 notes