| Conceptualizing criminal governance B Lessing Perspectives on politics 19 (3), 854-873, 2021 | 353 | 2021 |
| Making peace in drug wars: Crackdowns and cartels in Latin America B Lessing Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 324 | 2017 |
| Logics of violence in criminal war B Lessing Journal of Conflict Resolution 59 (8), 1486-1516, 2015 | 275 | 2015 |
| Legitimacy in criminal governance: Managing a drug empire from behind bars B Lessing, GD Willis American Political Science Review 113 (2), 584-606, 2019 | 220 | 2019 |
| Gang rule: Understanding and countering criminal governance C Blattman, G Duncan, B Lessing, S Tobón Review of Economic Studies, rdae079, 2024 | 148 | 2024 |
| Counterproductive punishment: How prison gangs undermine state authority B Lessing Rationality and Society 29 (3), 257-297, 2017 | 131 | 2017 |
| As facções cariocas em perspectiva comparativa B Lessing Novos estudos CEBRAP, 43-62, 2008 | 111 | 2008 |
| Inside out: The challenge of prison-based criminal organizations B Lessing Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| Endogenous state weakness in violent democracies: Paramilitaries at the polls D Hidalgo, B Lessing Work. Pap., Mass. Inst. Technol., Cambridge, MA, 2015 | 57* | 2015 |
| The logic of violence in criminal war: Cartel-State conflict in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil B Lessing University of California, Berkeley, 2012 | 45 | 2012 |
| The danger of dungeons: Prison gangs and incarcerated militant groups B Lessing Small arms survey 6, 157-183, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| The Brazilian small arms industry: legal production and trade P Dreyfus, B Lessing, JC Purcena Small arms in Brazil: Production, trade, and holdings, 30-83, 2005 | 40* | 2005 |
| 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 | 38 | 2010 |
| Brasil: as armas e as vítimas RC Fernandes, B Lessing | 38 | 2005 |
| Gobierno criminal en Medellín: panorama general del fenómeno y evidencia empírica sobre cómo enfrentarlo C Blattman, G Duncan, B Lessing, S Tobón, JP Mesa-Mejía | 27 | 2020 |
| The logic of violence in drug wars: cartel-state conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia B Lessing Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Working Paper, 2013 | 27* | 2013 |
| Gangs of Medellín: How organized crime is organized C Blattman, G Duncan, B Lessing, S Tobon Unpublished work in progress, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| When business gets bloody: State policy and drug violence B Lessing Small Arms Survey 2012, 40-77, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Criminal governance in Latin America in comparative perspective: Introduction to the special edition B Lessing Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social 15, 1-10, 2022 | 23* | 2022 |
| The Demand for Firearms in Rio de Janeiro B Lessing Brazil: The Guns and the Victims. Rio de Janeiro: Viva Rio, 202-20, 2005 | 23* | 2005 |
Santiago TobonUniversidad EAFITVerified email at eafit.edu.co
