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Towards digital organized crime and digital sociology of organized crime
As technology has changed people’s lives, criminal phenomena are also constantly evolving. Today’s digital society is changing the activities of...
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Rethinking organized crime in Africa
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives....
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Organized crime involvement in antiquities looting in Italy
Tombaroli (the Italian name for looters of archaeological heritage) have criminally preyed on Italy’s ancient tombs for centuries. Criminological...
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Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy
This work will be dealing with the relation between football and organized crime in Italy. It will attempt to critically analyse the relations...
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The persistence of organized crime in post-caliphate Iraq: a case of crime-terror convergence?
In the advancing understanding of the crime-terror nexus, organized crime and terrorist entities are increasingly seen as capable of pursuing...
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Evading Law Enforcement in the Americas: Latin American women in organized crime
This article presents the preliminary results of a qualitative exploratory study conducted between 2021 and 2023. This study was based on in-depth...
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Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities
This article explores how organized criminal organizations exercise criminal governance over other organized and non-organized criminals using public...
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COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue
This is an introduction to the articles submitted to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘COVID-19 and Organized Crime’. The aim of the...
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A ‘Lens of Labor’: Re-Conceptualizing Young People’s Involvement in Organized Crime
Millions of the world’s children engage in labor, often exploitative and essential to their survival. Child labor is closely related to crime; global...
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Trapped in an Abusive Relationship with an Organized Crime Offender: the Importance of Mental Health Support
This study aims to get more insight into experiences in the process towards mental recovery and the feasibility of providing mental health support to...
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Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform
In recent years, the analysis of economic crime and corruption in procurement has benefited from integrative studies that acknowledge the...
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Arab Organized Crime in Israel
For many years, Israel denied the existence of organized crime in the country. However, numerous journalist investigations, governmental fact-finding...
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Exploring Organized Crime Beyond Institutional Sources
In this chapter, we discuss the definition of organized crime and the methodological challenges that this area of inquiry arises. Based on our...
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Understanding Asian Organized Crime
This chapter introduces the multifaceted phenomenon of Asian Organized Crime and its impact on nation-states, with a particular emphasis on the...
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Co-offending and Criminal Careers in Organized Crime
The growing research on co-offending over the life course is based on relatively small, general offending samples, followed for a short period, and...
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Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice
Some African state responses to transnational organized crime (TOC) are criticized for being overly focused on the use of force by military and law...
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When prison gangs become organized crime: Studying protection arrangements and their consequences
Despite interest in the subject, the study of prison gangs has been meagre since the late 1980s. Occasional studies appear, but they tend to focus on...
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Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany
Criminological research on COVID-19 and its repercussions on crimes, criminals and law enforcement agencies is still in its infancy. This paper fills...
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From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents
This study builds on the constructivist tradition of organized crime research that strives to identify which phenomena and under which circumstances...
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The signing of the peace agreement in Colombia. Old wine in new skins: Implications for national security and organized crime
Recent scholarship has seen the peace agreement between Colombian government and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrillas a...
