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  1. Organized crime groups: A systematic review of individual‐level risk factors related to recruitment

    Studies from multiple contexts conceptualize organized crime as comprising different types of criminal organizations and activities. Notwithstanding growing scientific interest and increasing number of policies aiming at preventing and punishing organized crime, little is known about the specific processes that lead to recruitment into ...

  2. Organized crime groups: A systematic review of individual‐level risk

    Furthermore, individuals involved in criminal organizations are responsible for serious crimes with wide-ranging societal implications, including loss of lives, economic impact, and politics (Lavezzi, 2008; Pinotti, 2015). For this review, recruitment refers to the different processes leading individuals to the stable involvement into organized ...

  3. Criminal organizing applying the theory of partial organization to four

    The aim of this paper is to explore the fruitfulness of partial organization for research on organized crime. By doing so, the focus is shifted from the challenge of definitions mentioned above to an analysis of the common organizing principles underlying all forms of social collaboration, of which criminal collaboration is one.

  4. PDF Organized Crime in the United States: Trends and Issues for Congress

    Congressional Research Service 3 groups restrict membership based on a number of factors, including race, ethnicity, kinship, and criminal background. These criminal organizations continue, even if leadership or membership changes over time. Further, violence and/or the threat of violence are integral aspects of organized crime.

  5. Recent publications on organized crime: the year 2020

    When opportunity knocks: mobilizing capabilities on serious organized economic crime. Public Money and Management 40 (5):397-406. Nakamura, Kiminori, Tita, George, Krackhardt, David (2020). Violence in the "balance": a structural analysis of how rivals, allies, and third-parties shape inter-gang violence.

  6. Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism

    The merger of criminal groups with terrorist organizations is something of an ahistorical policy bogeyman—much discussed, greatly feared, but (so far) mythical. However, there have been instances of terrorist organizations broadening their strategic interests so completely as to become a transnational criminal enterprise ( Makarenko ...

  7. Identifying individuals associated with organized criminal networks: A

    It is widely known that organized criminal organizations flourish due to their significantly high revenues, since their criminal businesses resemble those of legitimate international businesses (Interpol). ... significant research on DTO and TO networks have been conducted utilizing Social Network Analysis (SNA). ... In this paper, we presented ...

  8. Outlaw motorcycle gangs and their members' crime: Examining the social

    The observed variation in crime is in line with prior research that distinguished various OMCGs and support clubs based on the registered criminal behaviour of their members (Blokland, Van der Leest and Soudijn, 2017, 2019) and research that differentiated between more criminal and less criminal OMCGs (Van Deuren et al., forthcoming).

  9. PDF Organized Crime: An Evolving Challenge for U.S. Law Enforcement

    Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R41547 . Organized Crime: An Evolving Challenge for U.S. Law Enforcement Congressional Research Service ... Criminal organizations targeting the United States operate in many of the world's nations. Areas wracked by social disorder, inadequate policing, and poor governance offer opportunities ...

  10. Research on Transnational Organized Crime

    Research on transnational organized crime. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime defines organized crime groups broadly, encompassing most forms of profit-motivated crime. Aside from its work on specific markets (drugs, trafficked persons, smuggled migrants, firearms, and wildlife), UNODC has conducted a number of ...

  11. Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics

    Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics. Alberto Alesina, Salvatore Piccolo & Paolo Pinotti. Working Paper 22093. DOI 10.3386/w22093. Issue Date March 2016. We investigate how criminal organizations strategically use violence to influence elections in order to get captured politicians elected. The model offers novel testable implications about ...

  12. 4 How to Research Organized Crime

    I. Introduction. The purpose of this essay is to provide an overview of the methods and approaches used in researching organized crime and organized crime-related issues. Section II focuses on official data and accounts (including interviews with public officials). Section III deals with quantitative and economic analyses, section IV with ...

  13. Transnational Crimes: Global Impact and Responses

    Transnational organized crime is an international problem and requires an international solution to increase global resilience. Near universal support for CTOC should indicate the issue is well controlled; however, highly sophisticated organized criminal groups cross international borders and conduct their business where sympathetic laws and societies exist.

  14. Social Network Analysis of Organized Criminal Groups

    Since the beginning of the 2000s, interest in this specific field has significantly increased and contributed to opening new research directions in the study of criminal organizations. Indeed, the number of articles and papers on criminal, illicit, or, more generally, "dark" networks has grown only since the 2000s.

  15. PDF Transnational Organized Crime and International Security

    intimidation, extortion, and corruption - only on a larger scale; for some observers, transnational criminal organizations now pose a threat to the nation-state. In this essay, I examine the strength of the claim that transnational organized crime is a security threat, in a meaningful sense of the term.

  16. Crime and justice research: The current landscape and future

    The contributions in this themed section developed from conversations that took place at an event hosted by the British Society of Criminology and Criminology & Criminal Justice in April 2019. The papers that follow respond to a 'think-piece' presented by Richard Sparks at that event, and engage with the subsequent debate about the future of funding for crime and justice research.

  17. Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations

    1 This report uses the terms drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), transnational criminal organization (TCOs), and drug cartels interchangeably to refer to Mexican crime groups (unless otherwise delineated). For example, some crime organizations evolve from more localized cartel fragments into full-blown TCOs, which commit drug trafficking and

  18. Roles And Challenges Of International Criminal Police Organization

    The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is a global police agency whose main aims are to: assist states in the global system work together to investigate international crimes and ...

  19. Administration of justice: an emerging research field

    Findings. As a research field, Administration of Justice is defined as a set of theoretical concepts, research methods and techniques, aiming to investigate the management processes associated with the use and articulation of resources, knowledge and institutions, at different levels of the justice system, and their influence on the provision of justice in a given social context.

  20. (PDF) Criminal Profiling: A Look into Its Effectiveness and the

    In the 4 decades since offender profiling (OP) was established, hundreds of journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, and magazine articles have been published on the topic, and the ...

  21. PDF Influence of Criminal Justice Research

    criminal justice research into a 'recognized and respected academic field. But however significant that may be for the research community, it does not reflect the Commission's intentions or justify the federal investment in research. The return on investment must finally be assessed in terms of the influence of the research on criminal justice ...

  22. A Qualitative Study: An Examination of Police Officers' Lived

    In the early months of 2020, the COVID-19 virus impacted the United States and disrupted daily routines in America (Stogner et al., 2020).Most businesses and organizations temporarily shut down operations or moved them online, but police officers had to remain on the job and continue performing many of the physical duties associated with police work.

  23. Managing Criminal Organisations

    13 pages. Annotation. In order to gain a better understanding of the managerial roles in criminal organizations, this paper examines the differences between criminal versus noncriminal organizations in terms of leadership and organizational studies by the application of management literature. Abstract. Rather than thinking of organized crimes ...

  24. (Pdf) Investigating Crime a Role of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal

    AI plays a vital role i n criminology. With the increasing amount of digital data avail able today, AI can be us ed to. analyze large datasets quickly and accurately, which can help law ...

  25. Cjrn :: Ssrn

    It includes research on aspects of the criminal justice system - police, criminal courts, and corrections - as well as broader research in criminology. The Criminal Justice Research Network on SSRN is an open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in our digital library, speeding up the ...

  26. Criminal Justice Research Papers

    Example research papers on criminal justice topics have been designed to serve as model papers for most criminological topics. Browse hundreds of research papers below. ... (singular, cosca) lay claim to rural communities, urban neighborhoods, and suburbs, primarily in western Sicily. This organization began to coalesce after 1860 when the ...

  27. Police Organization and Management Research Paper

    View sample criminal justice research paper on police organization and management. Browse criminal justice research paper topics for more inspiration. If you need a thorough research paper written according to all the academic standards, you can always turn to our experienced writers for help. This is how your paper can get an A!

  28. What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.

    About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2021 - 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% - involved a firearm. That marked the highest percentage since at least 1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online records. More than half of all suicides in 2021 - 26,328 out of 48,183, or 55% - also involved a gun, the highest percentage since 2001.

  29. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

    Historical Note. The original Rules of Civil Procedure for the District Courts were adopted by order of the Supreme Court on Dec. 20, 1937, transmitted to Congress by the Attorney General on Jan. 3, 1938, and became effective on Sept. 16, 1938.

  30. College Essays and Diversity in the Post-Affirmative Action Era

    Editor's Note: This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School. The Supreme Court's decision in June 2023 to bar the use of affirmative action in college admissions raised many questions. One of the most significant is whether universities should consider applicants' discussion of race in essays. The Court's decision in Students ...