Barrio Azteca is a criminal organization that has significantly evolved since its inception as a prison solidarity group—first into a true prison gang and then into an organized criminal enterprise operating in the free world. Today, Barrio Azteca has declined in power and effectiveness in carceral settings but continues to play an important role in the wholesale and retail drug trade in the Paso del Norte area. Its organizational life cycle appears to parallel that of a licit enterprise, except that it primarily competes in the criminal protection marketplace. Thus, to survive and compete in the market for criminal protection, Barrio Azteca adapted to shifts in control dynamics, demonstrating uncommon resilience, first specializing in protection in response to changes in carceral violence and, later, expanding into the drug-trafficking market in response to violence in the criminal underworld both inside and outside prison. This article traces that history of adaptation and persistence, situating it within a synthesis of currently accepted theoretical models of criminal organizational evolution, and in so doing, provides the first organizational history of a prison gang—Barrio Azteca—published in the academic literature.

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监狱内外的暴力与保护谈判：跨国监狱帮派 Barrio Azteca 的组织演变

Barrio Azteca 是一个犯罪组织，自从它作为一个监狱团结组织成立以来，已经发生了重大变化——首先变成了一个真正的监狱团伙，然后变成了一个在自由世界中运作的有组织的犯罪企业。今天，Barrio Azteca 在监狱环境中的权力和效率已经下降，但继续在 Paso del Norte 地区的批发和零售毒品贸易中发挥重要作用。它的组织生命周期似乎与合法企业的生命周期相似，只是它主要在刑事保护市场上竞争。因此，为了在刑事保护市场中生存和竞争，巴里奥·阿兹台克 (Barrio Azteca) 适应了控制动态的变化，展示了不寻常的弹性，首先专注于应对监狱暴力变化的保护，后来，扩展到贩毒市场，以应对监狱内外黑社会的暴力行为。本文追溯了适应和坚持的历史，将其置于目前公认的犯罪组织演变理论模型的综合之中，并在此过程中提供了学术文献中发表的监狱帮派——巴里奥阿兹台克 (Barrio Azteca) 的第一个组织历史。