| Logics of violence in criminal war B Lessing Journal of Conflict Resolution 59 (8), 1486-1516, 2015 | 186 | 2015 |
| Making peace in drug wars: crackdowns and cartels in Latin America B Lessing Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 160 | 2017 |
| Legitimacy in criminal governance: Managing a drug empire from behind bars B Lessing, GD Willis American Political Science Review 113 (2), 584-606, 2019 | 121 | 2019 |
| Conceptualizing criminal governance B Lessing Perspectives on Politics 19 (3), 854-873, 2021 | 87 | 2021 |
| Counterproductive punishment: How prison gangs undermine state authority B Lessing Rationality and Society 29 (3), 257-297, 2017 | 84 | 2017 |
| As facções cariocas em perspectiva comparativa B Lessing Novos estudos CEBRAP, 43-62, 2008 | 79 | 2008 |
| Inside out: The challenge of prison-based criminal organizations B Lessing Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| The logic of violence in criminal war: Cartel-State conflict in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil B Lessing University of California, Berkeley, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| The Brazilian small arms industry: legal production and trade P Dreyfus, B Lessing, JC Purcena Small arms in Brazil: Production, trade, and holdings, 50-93, 2005 | 35* | 2005 |
| Endogenous state weakness in violent democracies: Paramilitaries at the polls D Hidalgo, B Lessing Manuscript. University of Chicago. At https://drive. google. com/file/d/1g3 …, 2015 | 34* | 2015 |
| Small arms in Brazil: production, trade, and holdings P Dreyfus, B Lessing, M de Sousa Nascimento, JC Purcena Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Brasil: as armas e as vítimas RC Fernandes, B Lessing | 34 | 2005 |
| The danger of dungeons: Prison gangs and incarcerated militant groups B Lessing Small arms survey 6, 157-183, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
| Gang rule: Understanding and countering criminal governance C Blattman, G Duncan, B Lessing, S Tobón National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| When business gets bloody: State policy and drug violence B Lessing Small Arms Survey 2012, 40-77, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Small Arms Control in Mercosur P Dreyfus, W Godnick, B Lessing, C Iotty Dias Latin America Series, 1989-2000, 2003 | 21* | 2003 |
| The Demand for Firearms in Rio de Janeiro B Lessing Brazil: The Guns and the Victims. Rio de Janeiro: Viva Rio, 202-20, 2005 | 19* | 2005 |
| Gangs of Medellín: How organized crime is organized C Blattman, G Duncan, B Lessing, S Tobon Unpublished work in progress, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| A hole at the center of the state: Prison gangs and the limits to punitive power B Lessing CDDRL Working Paper 143, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
| How to build a criminal empire from behind bars: Prison gangs and projection of power B Lessing Available HTTP: http://www. iza. org/conference_files/riskonomics2014 …, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
Graham Denyer WillisAssociate Professor, Development and Latin American Studies, Dept. of Politics & InternationalVerified email at cam.ac.uk
