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Criminal groups in Mexico and across Latin America have become adept at grooming vulnerable young men as recruits. A new study has sought to understand how exposure to criminality from an early age conditions vulnerable people to view joining a criminal group as the next logical step in their lives.
InSight Crime spoke with Piotr Chomczyński, an associate professor at the University of Lodz in Poland and one of the co-authors of this study, to understand how the everyday experiences of these men prepared them for a life of crime, as opposed to their individual motivations. Some answers were obtained from one of Chomczyński's "informers" in the community, who asked for anonymity…
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