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Transplantation theory in terrorism: an exploratory analysis of organised crime and terrorist group expansion Global Crime Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Tin Kapetanovic, Mark Dechesne, Joanne P. Van der Leun
Most terrorist groups are active close to their native area of operation. Why then do some terrorist groups expand to foreign territories? In an exploratory attempt, this article draws parallels be...
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A detailed study of a prominent dark web fentanyl trafficking organization Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Jonathan P. Caulkins, Philippe C. Schicker, H. Brinton Milward, Peter Reuter
Overdose deaths in North America have soared, primarily because of the spread of illegally manufactured fentanyl. This paper uses detailed qualitative and transaction-level data to analyse an early...
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Crimes on the edge? Criminal activities and the crime-terror nexus in the Kenyan peripheries of the Indian Ocean Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen
Maritime security threats in the East African coastal peripheries are greatly interwoven with local crimes, economies, and socio-political lifestyles. How crimes are viewed, defined, and categorise...
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Public mass shootings in developed countries: uncovering stability and change at the turn of the century Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Jason R. Silva
This study examines the stability and change in public mass shootings in developed countries outside of the United States (2000–2021). Public mass shootings refer to incidents involving public/popu...
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“Exploring police officers’ perceptions of their female colleagues in Uttar Pradesh, India: a phenomenological analysis” Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Saumya Tripathi, Sameena Azhar
This study aimed to explore Indian police officers’ perceptions of their female colleagues through Bourdieu and Chan’s framework of habitus, practice, field, and capital. We interviewed 12 police o...
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Mechanisms of recruitment into sex trafficking operations: a systematic review Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Lauren Martin, Cynthia Matthias, Stephen Abeyta, Matthew Kafafian, Kelle Barrick, Amy Farrell
Sex trafficking is a global human rights issue and a form of violence with numerous health and mental health sequelae. This systematic review synthesised the global literature on recruitment into s...
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Transnational trafficking networks of end-of-life vehicles and e-waste Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Serena Favarin, Giulia Berlusconi, Alberto Aziani, Samuele Corradini
ABSTRACT Based on case studies and interviews, it appears that the transnational trafficking of various waste types follows distinct paths. However, this information only provides a partial view of the global waste trafficking network, as it has never been studied by combining all the known illegal flows of different waste types. To address this gap, we analysed data from the Basel Convention National
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Crime script analysis of drug importation into Australia facilitated by the dark net Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Elena Morgenthaler, Benoit Leclerc
ABSTRACT A growing facilitator of drug trafficking are dark net markets, which enable transactions between sellers and buyers of illicit drugs around the world. This study aimed to develop a crime script for drug importation into Australia and identify potential crime prevention points within the crime script. To achieve this, a content analysis of 18 Australian court sentencing transcripts was conducted
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Aggressive spectators in sporting milieus: A test of Situational Action Theory Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Saeed Kabiri, Seyyedeh Masoomeh Shadmanfaat, Robert C. Perkins, Hadley Wellen, C. Jordan Howell, John K. Cochran, Hayden Smith
ABSTRACT Violence among spectators in sports is a global phenomenon posing hazards for players, match officials, and other participants. Despite its widespread prevalence, scant criminological research has investigated the matter. To fill this void, this study examines the predictive efficacy of key theoretical constructs derived from Situational Action Theory on aggressive behaviour among a sample
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Firearm Homicides in Europe: A Comparison with Non-Firearm Homicides in Five European Countries Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Katharina Krüsselmann, Pauline Aarten, Sven Granath, Janne Kivivuori, Nora Markwalder, Karoliina Suonpää, Asser Hedegaard Thomsen, Simone Walser, Marieke Liem
ABSTRACT Detailed, comparative research on firearm violence in Europe is rare. Using data from the European Homicide Monitor, this paper presents the prevalence and characteristics of firearm homicides in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland between 2001 and 2016. Furthermore, we compare firearm to non-firearm homicides to assess the degree of uniqueness of firearms as modus operandi
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On the Dynamics behind Profit-Driven Cybercrime: From Contextual Factors to Perceived Group Structures, and the Workforce at the Periphery Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Sebastián García
ABSTRACT Through an inductive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with experts, this study corroborates key findings on contextual and organisational dynamics behind profit-driven cybercrime. The findings pinpoint three contextual factors influencing individuals to participate in profit-driven cybercrime: lack of legal economic opportunities, lack of deterrents, and drifting means. The
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More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Cassandra Cross, Thomas J. Holt
ABSTRACT Romance fraud occurs when an offender uses the guise of a genuine relationship to defraud an individual for financial gain. Known statistics indicate that millions are lost each year to this form of fraud. However, the potential for romance fraud victims to also experience identity crime as a consequence of their interactions and communications with an offender has yet to be explored. This
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Parents’ Reflections on Child Trafficking Mitigation Mechanisms in Trafficking Hotspot Communities Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Crispin Rakibu Mbamba, Enoch Boafo Amponsah, Portia Akua Yeboaa, Deborah Annang, Mary McCarthy
ABSTRACT Evidence shows that the majority of the world’s trafficking in persons for sexual and labour purposes occurs over short distances. In Ghana, children are largely trafficked from rural communities into resource-prone areas to engage in intensive labour activities. This study explores the views of parents in communities where children are largely trafficked, on the best ways to intervene in
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Explaining the reproduction of illegal drug use control regimes in Japan: the multi-centred governance thesis Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-12-27 David Brewster, Adam Edwards
ABSTRACT Despite current global trends towards diversification in policy responses to illegal drug use, including growing criticism of the War on Drugs, Japan continues to retain an ardently prohibitive approach. This article explains the reproduction of prohibitionist policies in Japan throughout the post-War period through use of the Multi-Centred Governance (MCG) thesis. This thesis acknowledges
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Building a case for trust: reputation, institutional regulation and social ties in online drug markets Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Rasmus Munksgaard
ABSTRACT In illicit online markets, actors are pseudonymous, legal institutions are absent, and predation is ripe. The literature proposes that problems of trust are solved by reputation systems, social ties, and administrative governance, but these are often measured independently or in single platforms. This study takes an eclectic approach, conceiving of trust as an estimate informed by any available
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Demand for and disposal of stolen goods in legitimate second-hand online markets: an explorative online survey Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Liam Quinn, Joseph Clare, Jade Lindley, Frank Morgan
ABSTRACT An exploratory survey of 1,276 legitimate second-hand online market users from the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), and Australia was conducted to gauge the extent of stolen goods disposal in these markets; the willingness among users to receive suspected stolen goods; and the likely utility of hypothetical market reduction measures to disrupt disposal of stolen goods online. Chi-square
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Profiling the Fraudster: Findings from a Rapid Evidence Assessment Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Anna Gekoski, Joanna R Adler, Tim McSweeney
ABSTRACT Fraud accounts for a growing proportion of UK crime, causing economic losses, societal and personal harms. While there is a growing body of literature on the scale and prevalence of fraud, little research has been undertaken about those who carry out the crime – the offenders – since seminal studies undertaken in the 1970s and 80s. This study reports on findings from a Rapid Evidence Assessment
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How international rents moderate business cycles’ relationship to high homicide rates Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Daniel S. Leon
ABSTRACT I explore the relationships between macroeconomic conditions and how the forms of integration into the global economy affect homicide rates in 21 high-violence countries from 2000 to 2018. The analysis focuses on countries integrated into the global economy by accruing international economic rents. I use data from 2000 to 2018 to analyse how resource rents and remittances moderated the relationship
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Changing attitudes: lessons for countering the trafficking of cultural objects Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Siv Rebekka Runhovde
ABSTRACT The illicit transnational trades in cultural goods and wildlife, while distinct, share many characteristics. This article identifies and compares the intricacies of controlling trafficking in cultural objects and wildlife from a customs perspective. Findings indicate that in Norwegian customs, the countering of wildlife trafficking benefits from at least two conditions: 1) officers have become
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The vanishing independent: adapting to the changing dynamics of drug trafficking organisations in Mexico Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Roger Guy, Piotr A. Chomczyński, Rodrigo Cortina Cortés
ABSTRACT Organised Crime in Mexico has undergone considerable change since 2006 when violent competition between drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) intensified. This article explores changes in drug trafficking activities from the perspective of independent dealers in Mexico City. Based on in-depth interviews (N = 64) we conclude that freelance dealers are increasingly pressured to become affiliated
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The criminology of Carlo Morselli II Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-08-08 David Décary-Hétu, Rémi Boivin
Published in Global Crime (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2022)
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Criminal nomads: The role of multiple memberships in the criminal collaboration network between Hells Angels MC and Bandidos MC Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Hernan Mondani, Amir Rostami
ABSTRACT Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) have received increased attention from both law enforcement agencies and the research community. This study investigates the criminal collaboration patterns of two OMGs with a long history of hostilities. We use government data on individuals registered as belonging to Hells Angels MC, Bandidos MC and individuals with multiple OMG memberships, and suspicion data
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Mapping hawala risks around the world: the use of a composite indicator Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Chang Ryung Han, Bastiaan Leeuw, Hans Nelen
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to map the landscape of risk faced by each country with respect to the presence and prosperity of informal fund transfer (IFT) systems. This study constructed a composite indicator to assess IFT risks of the 121 countries. The IFT risk that this study intended to gauge is not crime risk(s) that IFT systems cause but risk that IFT systems operate and prosper in given
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What happens when the police go on strike? Homicides increase. Evidence from Ceará, Brazil Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Alberto Aziani
ABSTRACT This study investigates how an abrupt reduction in policing impacts upon the occurrence of homicides in a violent context in the Global South. The study utilizes a police strike in the Brazilian state of Ceará in summer 2020 as a quasi-natural experiment. Separate SARIMA and Exponential Smoothing models fitted on data on weekly homicide counts from January 2015 to the beginning of the strike
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Lawyers as money laundering enablers? An evolving and contentious relationship Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Michael Levi
ABSTRACT Using limited datasets and case studies drawn from the Global North and South, this article critically considers the available evidence about the involvement of lawyers in elite money laundering and attempts to control their involvement. In addition to lawyers’ lobbying and drafting laws , the normal focus of the ‘enablers’ discourse is on lawyers using expert knowledge and legal professional
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When encryption fails: a glimpse behind the curtain of synthetic drug trafficking networks Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Melvin R.J. Soudijn, Irma J. Vermeulen, Wouter P.E. van der Leest
ABSTRACT The confiscation of the server of an encrypted telephone provider resulted in the retrieval of millions of text messages about covert activities that were overtly discussed between criminals. It provided a unique window into serious organised crime and the people involved. In this article, a social network analysis was carried out on accounts who communicated about synthetic drug trafficking
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Is there a link between immigration and incarceration rate?: Evidence from the Syrian refugee influx to Turkey Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Murat A. Mercan, Hande Barlin, Nazire Begen
ABSTRACT In this study, we investigate the impact of an increase in the number of refugees on a host country’s incarceration rate, through the specific case of the inflow of Syrian refugees into Turkey. Using statistics from Turkish penal institutions for the period of 2010 to 2015, we applied the difference-in-difference, panel event study, synthetic control, and instrumental variable approaches to
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Network analysis for financial crime risk assessment: the case study of the gambling division in Malta Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Maria Jofre
ABSTRACT The present study aims to support existing risk assessment tools by proposing an innovative network-oriented methodology based on ownership information. The approach involves calculating company-level indicators that are then transformed into red flags and used to rate risk. To this end, we collect data on companies active in the division of gambling and betting activities in Malta, and further
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Taking care of everyone’s business: interpreting Sicilian Mafia embedment through spatial network analysis Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Michele Battisti, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Roberto Musotto
ABSTRACT Mafia-type organisations often have a strong geographical and cultural entrenchment in the territory they belong. However, their analysis as a spatially networked social structure is still missing. A combined socio-spatial network analysis is presented here, through the demise of a large police operation called Operazione Perseo in 2008. This approach is developed in two ways. At first, a
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International weapons trafficking from the United States of America: a crime script analysis of the means of transportation Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Fiona Langlois, Damien Rhumorbarbe, Denis Werner, Nicolas Florquin, Stefano Caneppele, Quentin Rossy
ABSTRACT Using a crime script analysis, this research aims to document how smugglers operate when they traffic arms from the US to foreign countries. Our study is based on an analysis of 66 cases that have been judged by US courts (2008–2017). The criminal activities involved are detailed in a series of distinct scenes, according to Cornish’s theory. Five scripts have been developed, based on the means
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Introduction: the criminology of Carlo Morselli Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Rémi Boivin, David Décary-Hétu
(2022). Introduction: the criminology of Carlo Morselli. Global Crime: Vol. 23, The Criminology of Carlo Morselli, pp. 1-4.
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The intangible benefits of criminal mentorship Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Frédéric Ouellet, Martin Bouchard, Valérie Thomas
ABSTRACT Individuals who report having had a mentor also tend to report higher levels of criminal achievement. However, prior studies focused on indirect yet tangible outcomes of mentorship, telling us little about the direct – though potentially intangible – benefits of these relationships to the mentee. In this study, we analyse the content of 28 life story narratives of offenders to examine the
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The determinants of group membership in organized crime in the UK: A network study Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Paolo Campana, Federico Varese
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore the determinants of co-membership in organised crime groups in a British police force. We find that co-membership of OCGs is higher among individuals who share the same ethnicity and nationality; who have committed acts of violence; and who perpetrate the vast majority of their crimes in the same area. We also find a homophily tendency in relation to age and gender
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Cooperation and distrust in extra-legal networks: a research note on the experimental study of marketplace disruption Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Lonie Sebagh, Jonathan Lusthaus, Edoardo Gallo, Federico Varese, Sean Sirur
ABSTRACT Cybercriminal markets serve as hubs for offenders and enable the sale of illegal goods and services. Thus far, the primary tactics that have been employed against these sites are arrests of cybercriminals and takedowns of marketplace infrastructure. This research note examines a different genus of disruptive strategy: attacks on user reputation. In this area, there has been some scholarly
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Cryptomarkets and the returns to criminal experience Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Marie Ouellet, David Décary-Hétu, Andréanne Bergeron
ABSTRACT Criminal capital theory suggests more experienced offenders receive higher returns from crime. Offenders who accrue skills over their criminal career are better able to minimise detection, increase profits, and navigate illegal markets. Yet shifts in the offending landscape to technologically-dependent crimes have led some to suggest that the skills necessary to be successful in conventional
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Politicised crime: causes for the discursive politicisation of organised crime in Latin America Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-01-16 Reynell Badillo, Víctor M. Mijares
ABSTRACT Why do criminal groups decide to adopt political discourses? We argue that an armed group’s discursive politicisation (the public declaration of political motivations) is more likely when the state declares the organisation to be an existential threat, militarises the fight against it (securitisation), and when the leaders of the armed group have had political training. This discourse aims
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The limits of resistance to criminal governance: cyclical violence and the aftermath of the autodefensa movement in Michoacán, Mexico Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Joel Salvador Herrera
ABSTRACT This article asks whether some forms of collective action against criminal rule can mitigate or reduce violence. Focusing on the case of Michoacán, Mexico, this study examines the aftermath of an armed mobilisation against criminal governance that occurred between 2013 and 2014. It argues that the emergence of vigilante groups known as autodefensas was part of a regional cycle of violence
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Come at the king, you best not miss: criminal network adaptation after law enforcement targeting of key players Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Giulia Berlusconi
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of the targeting of key players by law enforcement on the structure, communication strategies, and activities of a drug trafficking network. Data are extracted from judicial court documents. The unique nature of the investigation – which saw a key player being arrested mid-investigation but police monitoring continuing for another year – allows to compare
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Violence brokers and super-spreaders: how organised crime transformed the structure of Chicago violence during Prohibition Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Chris M. Smith, Andrew V. Papachristos
ABSTRACT The rise of organised crime changed Chicago violence structurally by creating networks of rivalries and conflicts wherein violence ricocheted. This study examines the organised crime violence network during Prohibition by analysing ‘violence brokers’ – individuals who committed multiple violence acts that linked separate violent events into a connected violence network. We analyse the two-mode
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Gun violence: insights from international research Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-11-06 Nicolas Florquin
ABSTRACT This article reviews research undertaken over the past two decades to support international policy on small arms and light weapons (SALW) – which include firearms – and discusses its relevance to academic debates and policy on gun violence. It examines whether SALW research generated a greater understanding of the most problematic uses and users of firearms, and of the role of different weapons
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Criminal achievement, criminal self-efficacy, and the criminology of Carlo Morselli: suggestions for continuing and extending a fruitful line of inquiry Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-11-06 Timothy Brezina, MariTere Molinet
ABSTRACT The unique scholarship of Carlo Morselli fuelled interest in criminal networks, entrepreneurship, and achievement. In this paper, we summarise Morselli’s contributions to the scholarship on criminal achievement, with special attention to the subjective aspects of such achievement. We show how Morselli’s work ignited interest in the novel concept of criminal self-efficacy and we offer a number
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Theft of oil from pipelines: an examination of its crime commission in Mexico using crime script analysis Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Arantza Alonso Berbotto, Spencer Chainey
ABSTRACT The theft of refined oil products provides criminal groups with significant financial resources that threaten the environment and socio-economic stability of countries where it occurs. Violence is also associated with this criminal activity. Using crime script analysis, a detailed interpretation of the theft of oil via the illegal tapping of pipelines in Mexico was constructed. The analysis
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The crime decline in cross-national context: a panel analysis of homicide rates within latent trajectory groups Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-05-04 James Tuttle, Patricia McCall, Kenneth Land
ABSTRACT During the 1990s, the United States and other wealthy democracies experienced a decline in homicide rates. However, not all nations shared this trend. Despite disparate homicide patterns, researchers usually examine the average effect of correlates on homicide, potentially obscuring the impact of heterogeneity within large samples. The current study addresses this implicit homogeneity assumption
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Narco-violence, forced displacement, and sex trafficking: a qualitative study in Mexico Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Arun Kumar Acharya, Jennifer Bryson Clark
ABSTRACT During the last decade, over 160,000 people were forcibly displaced internally because of narco-violence in Mexico. Displaced families suffer social and economic vulnerabilities that make them easy prey for trafficking and exploitation. This paper analyses the association between forced displacement caused by narco-violence and trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation in Mexico
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Female homicide victimisation in Mexico: a group-based trajectory and spatial study Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Ricardo Massa Roldan, Gustavo Fondevila, Enrique García-Tejeda
ABSTRACT Recent literature has demonstrated that the War on Drugs policies had different consequences for different population groups. Despite this, female homicide victimisation resulting from such policies remains an underexplored subject of study. This paper examines the asymmetrical patterns of female homicides in the Mexican states that implemented the 2006 War on Drugs. A group-based trajectory
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The spatial diffusion of homicide in Mexico City: a test of theories in context Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Carlos Vilalta, Pablo Lopez-Ramirez, Gustavo Fondevila
ABSTRACT Homicidal violence has increased substantially in Mexico City in recent years. In this regard, we ask three questions: First, is there a contagious spread of this violence across neighbourhoods? Second, does it spread in association with drug market activity among local criminal organisations? Third, does it spread to neighbourhoods characterised by concentrated disadvantage, disorder, and
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Human smuggling at EU-internal transit points: strengths of a disorganised illegal market and how to effectively reduce it Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Anna Paus
ABSTRACT The reinstating of temporary EU-internal physical borders and their increased safeguarding through border checks has increased the dependence of irregular migrants on organised criminal groups (OCGs) in facilitating their journeys. The article explores organisational structure and operation of OCGs operating within this under-researched human smuggling context, with a focus on the transit
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Street corner decisions: an empirical investigation of extortionist choices in El Salvador Global Crime Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Carlos Ponce
ABSTRACT This paper identifies offender choice patterns associated with extortion subtypes in El Salvador, Central America. Previous research attributes the rise of extortion in the country to the evolution and propagation of Los Angeles-born street gangs Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18. Data from a unique business victimisation survey is used to analyse 53 decisions in 869 reported cases. The
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Explaining the positional importance of actors involved in trafficking methamphetamine into Indonesia Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Fathurrohman, Gisela Bichler
ABSTRACT Disrupting drug operations requires a measured approach to identifying critical actors playing instrumental roles in support of illicit drug market activity. We use a quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) nodal regression routine to explore the explanatory relevance of human capital in accounting for an actor’s structural position within two methamphetamine trafficking communities—one originating
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Yakuza Grey: The Shrinking of the Il/legal Nexus and its Repercussions on Japanese Organised Crime Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Martina Baradel
ABSTRACT For decades Japanese criminal syndicates, collectively known as the yakuza, enjoyed a highly visible and semi-legal status that positioned them in a grey area. Accordingly, also much of the yakuza’s business lies in a grey zone: night-entertainment, different forms of gambling, front companies and (fake) social movements. However, following the introduction of new stricter regulations, the
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Drug dealers gone digital: using signalling theory to analyse criminal online personas and trust Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Silje Anderdal Bakken
ABSTRACT Online and digital platforms play a central role in today’s illegal activities and related networks. Communicating through these channels makes creating an online criminal identity crucial to establish oneself as trustworthy and meet the needs of potential buyers, especially when reaching out to strangers in a market. A highly needed skill is balancing the signals of attracting wanted attention
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Distributing tobacco in the dark: assessing the regional structure and shipping patterns of illicit tobacco in cryptomarkets Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-07-31 R. Munksgaard, D. Décary-Hétu, A. Malm, A. Nouvian
ABSTRACT The size of the global market for illicit tobacco products is estimated to be between USD$8.6 and USD$11.6 billion yearly. In addition to an estimated cost of USD$40.5 billion in lost tax revenue the illicit tobacco market further increases the accessibility of a harmful substance for minors and provides a revenue stream for both organised crime and violent political groups. In this paper
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The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Alexei Anisin
(2021). The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia. Global Crime: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 166-169.
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An impressive view on profit driven cybercrime: a review of J. Lusthaus’ industry of anonymity Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-03-20 M. Weulen Kranenbarg
With Industry of Anonymity, Jonathan Lusthaus has written a thorough scientific book which reads like a novel and keeps you interested till the end. The empirical work on which this book is based i...
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(Con)trolling the Web: Social Media User Arrests, State-Supported Vigilantism and Citizen Counter-Forces in Russia Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Rashid Gabdulhakov
ABSTRACT This article applies Haggerty and Ericson’s surveillant assemblage concept to the recent wave of social media user arrests in Russia. In doing so, it addresses the legislative frameworks applied to online self-expression, depicts the nuances of legal charges pressed against select social media users, assesses the role of formal law enforcement and vigilant citizens recruited to extend the
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A methodology for estimating the illicit consumption of cigarettes at the country level Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Alberto Aziani, Marco Dugato, Cecilia Meneghini
ABSTRACT This paper introduces and discusses a methodology for estimating the scale of illicit consumption of cigarettes at a national level. After reviewing current data gathering approaches and estimates, the paper delineates a methodology to estimate the consumption of each type of illicit cigarette (i.e., counterfeits, illicit whites, smuggled/trafficked genuine cigarettes). The proposed methodology
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Features of transnational illicit waste trafficking and crime prevention strategies to tackle it Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-02-11 Daniela Andreatta, Serena Favarin
ABSTRACT Despite the growing interest in illicit waste trafficking (IWT), studies that empirically address the issue are still few. Mostly, they fail to present in-depth analysis of the different stages of IWT and to suggest crime prevention strategies. This study conducts a crime script analysis of five cross-border judicial cases from Italy to other countries. This method makes it possible to shed
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Homicide as a function of city block layout: Mexico City as case study Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-01-27 Carlos J. Vilalta, Robert Muggah, Gustavo Fondevila
ABSTRACT Focused on Mexico City, this article offers a seminal examination of the relationship between block layout and intentional homicide. The authors applied multilevel random-intercept negative binomial models to assess the contribution of block layout characteristics to homicide counts while controlling for other factors related to the physical environment and socioeconomic disadvantage. The
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Innovations in research on illicit networks Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-01-02 David Bright, Russell Brewer
Research using social network analysis to study illicit networks has blossomed since publication of a seminal article by Sparrow. Nonetheless, it took about ten years before Sparrow’s call to arms gained traction, with some scepticism from the wider social science academy about the utility of social network analysis as a viable tool. Since those early days, we have witnessed a burgeoning interest in
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Situational breakdowns: Understanding protest violence and other surprising outcomes Global Crime Pub Date : 2019-12-31 Thomas O’Brien
The eruption of violence at apparently peaceful protests is an important issue, as the effect of a loss of control can be significant and lasting. Presence of disruptive elements, such as the so-ca...