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March 22, 2026Open Access

Convergent Institutional Evolution: Organized Crime as Natural Experiment for the Extended Phenotype Theory of Law

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ILIgnacio Adrian Lerer

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Overview

Analyzes organized crime's institutional convergence, suggesting implications for legal frameworks and extraction dynamics.

Key Points

  • To explore why organized crime exhibits similar institutional trajectories across cultures and time periods.
  • Comparative analysis of multiple international organized crime cases.
  • Utilization of econometric studies on criminal organizations.
  • Theoretical framework application of Extended Phenotype Theory to legal institutions.
  • Identified functional convergence in seven independent organized crime cases.
  • Reinterpreted transition mechanisms through the lens of replicator dynamics.
  • Proposed falsifiable predictions connecting organized crime to formal legal systems.

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Ignacio Adrian Lerer (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69bf390ac7b3c90b18b433f0https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19122983
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