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Stolen data markets on Telegram: a crime script analysis and situational crime prevention measures Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Taisiia Garkava, Asier Moneva, E. Rutger Leukfeldt
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State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Daniel do Nascimento Ferreira, Fábio Rodrigo Ferreira Nobre
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Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Paolo Campana, Cecilia Meneghini
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The nexus of women and ‘Clan Crime’: unravelling the dynamics and constraints Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-03-04
Abstract Despite its prominence in public debate, scholars have given little attention to women’s roles in ‘clan crime’ in Germany. This article aims to bridge this gap through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and 18 interviews conducted with women from various ‘clans’ throughout the country. These women are part of the al-Rashidiyya community with origins in Mardin, Turkey. Adopting an anthropological
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When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Alberto Vannucci
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A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Melvin Soudijn, Edwin Kruisbergen
Yarin Eski and Anna Sergi recently published an article in Trends in Organized Crime called ‘Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia‑cation in the Netherlands’ Eski and Sergi (Trends Organ Crime, 1?20 2023). In their theoretical contribution, the authors claim that the policing of organised crime in the Netherlands amounts to ethnic profiling of minorities. However, the question of
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The state of the organ trade: Narratives of corruption in Egypt and Bangladesh Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Seán Columb, Monir Moniruzzaman
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the trade in human organs in Egypt and Bangladesh. The authors draw on extensive qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork in both countries to assess the efficacy of legal measures in response to the organ trade. Despite the introduction of tough criminal sanctions in Egypt and Bangladesh the buying and selling of organs (e.g., kidneys, liver lobes) has continued
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Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Fangzhou Wang
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Human trafficking, sexual exploitation and digital technologies Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Xavier L’Hoiry, Alessandro Moretti, Georgios A. Antonopoulos
This is the introduction to the special issue on ‘human trafficking, sexual exploitation and digital technologies’. This special issue contributes to the knowledge base by bringing together four articles that focus on the use of online platforms by human traffickers for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. In doing so, this special issue explores the affordances of online platforms to human
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Inside the Dutch Hells Angels: an empirical study into the club’s entry mechanisms Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sjoukje van Deuren, Robby Roks, Teun van Ruitenburg
Outlaw biker clubs have drawn considerable attention of law enforcement agencies across European countries. Despite law enforcement efforts, the popularity of the outlaw biker subculture has been on the rise recently. There is, however, still little understanding of how individuals become engaged in the outlaw biker subculture. Using unique data from interviews with current members of the Dutch Hells
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Evading Law Enforcement in the Americas: Latin American women in organized crime Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-12-30
Abstract This article presents the preliminary results of a qualitative exploratory study conducted between 2021 and 2023. This study was based on in-depth interviews with law enforcement agents and experts in gender and security, and document analysis. Using examples from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, we aimed to analyze how stereotypes can shape gender bias, particularly regarding how women in middle
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Rethinking organized crime in Africa Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Gernot Klantschnig, Philippe M. Frowd, Elodie Apard, Tarela Ike, Georgios A. Antonopoulos
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives. Such research often relies upon inflated facts for captivating public attention, is fuelled by sensationalist media reports and draws from conceptualisations that give an incomplete picture of the significance of illicit activities, both for the state and
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Countering the illicit trading of cultural goods: Recent trends, emerging issues, and LEA responses in Turkey Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Engin Erken, Umut Turksen
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Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Joshua Nielsen, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Meng-Hao Li, Monica Gentili, Seán Columb, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Naoru Koizumi
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Traces of (dis)organised crime in sports gambling: a case study of the 2011 K-League match-fixing scandal Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Minhyeok Tak, Steven J. Jackson, Michael P. Sam
Gambling-related match-fixing is a form of corruption that has become a global issue particularly since the start of the new millennium. Research on match-fixing has often emphasised the involvement of mafia-like criminal groups in match-fixing arrangements. By incorporating an activity-centred view of organised crime, this paper examines how, and to what extent, organised crime is involved in betting-related
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Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Matt Hopkins, Rachel Keighley, Teela Sanders
Abstract Thinking about organised crime as an ecosystem is not only novel but also offers much potential to add to the theoretical and policy-based literature in this area. While organised crime is often analysed as relationships between criminal groups and consumers of illicit goods/services, little work has analysed specific forms of organised crime activities as ecosystems where different constituent
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Criminal infiltration in amateur football: the case of the Netherlands Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Toine Spapens
In the past five years involvement of criminals in socially beneficial activities and philanthropy has received increasing attention in the Netherlands. Amateur football clubs appear to be particularly vulnerable to criminal infiltration. This paper presents the results of three exploratory studies conducted to answer two main questions. First, to what extent does criminal infiltration in amateur football
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The threat of ransomware in the food supply chain: a challenge for food defence Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Louise Manning, Aleksandra Kowalska
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Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Vincenzo Scalia
This work will be dealing with the relation between football and organized crime in Italy. It will attempt to critically analyse the relations between football and organized crime. Its focus will be on the relation between ultras, that is a relevant part of organized supporters, and organized crime. The paper devotes particular attention to a 2017 Report of the Italian Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission
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Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Reynell Badillo-Sarmiento, Luis Fernando Trejos-Rosero
This article explores how organized criminal organizations exercise criminal governance over other organized and non-organized criminals using public messaging, lethal and extra-lethal violence. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, over 350 press reports, and an original database on inter-criminal lethal violence, we show, in line with recent literature on organized crime, that while these organizations
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It’s a man’s world but it would be nothing without a woman: The involvement of women in Belgian synthetic drugs trafficking Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Sophia De Seranno, Charlotte Colman
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Organized crime involvement in antiquities looting in Italy Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Marc Balcells
Tombaroli (the Italian name for looters of archaeological heritage) have criminally preyed on Italy’s ancient tombs for centuries. Criminological research on archaeological looting in Italy, however, is scarce. This research focused on the nature of the relationship between tombaroli and organized crime groups in Italy: a misrepresented relationship, as some media outlets depict looters as involved
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Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Mark Berry, Mike Salinas, R. V. Gundur
The illicit drug trade generates billions of dollars in revenue per year, much of which comes from wholesale and retail sales late in the supply chain. Yet, the methods retailers and low-level wholesalers use to launder this revenue remain poorly understood. Using in-depth interviews with illicit drug entrepreneurs in the United States and the United Kingdom, this article analyses laundering strategies
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From payday to payoff: Exploring the money laundering strategies of cybercriminals Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Mirko Nazzari
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Ethical and conceptual challenges in researching human trafficking in Edo state, Nigeria Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Precious Oghale Diagboya
The aim of this paper is to further understanding on the ethical and conceptual challenges associated with researching human trafficking in Edo state, Nigeria. The contribution addresses perceptions of these phenomena among some local actors in the state. Based on five years’ research on human trafficking from Nigeria to Europe, this paper puts into perspective local perceptions, and some dynamics
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Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Yarin Eski, Anna Sergi
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Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Catherine Lena Kelly
Some African state responses to transnational organized crime (TOC) are criticized for being overly focused on the use of force by military and law enforcement. Policy approaches that promote using criminal law to deter TOC have helped to shift focus away from the kinetic solutions that may otherwise prevail by default. However, empirical studies show that TOC is enabled by a range of development and
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New challenges in financial supervision: environmental crime terrorism financing Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Shacheng Wang, Zhongyu Tian
Environmental crime terrorism financing is the collection, transfer, and use of terrorist-related funds or terrorist-related property in environmental crime. Terrorism financing methods through environmental crime include the trading of precious and endangered wild animals and plants. The characteristics of terrorism financing through environmental crime include the intertwined use of many criminal
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Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 J. R. Nicolás-Carlock, I. Luna-Pla
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Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Oscar Contreras Velasco
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The signing of the peace agreement in Colombia. Old wine in new skins: Implications for national security and organized crime Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Farid Badrán
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Your files have been encrypted: a crime script analysis of ransomware attacks Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Sifra R. Matthijsse, M. Susanne van ‘t Hoff-de Goede, E. Rutger Leukfeldt
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#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Nick Gibbs
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The illegal trade in European eels: outsourcing, funding, and complex symbiotic-antithetical relationships Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Aitor Ibáñez Alonso, Daan P. van Uhm
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Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Sutham Cheurprakobkit, Kidtanathat Lerwongrat
For the past 10 years, Thailand has been one of the top 10 countries targeted by cyber criminals. In order to address this pressing issue of computer and cybercrime, Thailand enacted the Computer Crime Act (Version 2) of 2017 to better reflect the changing nature and types of computer crime and created the CyberCrime Investigation Bureau to be directly responsible for such crime. Very little empirical
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The dynamics of criminal cooperation between the police and gangs in Honduras Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Josué Sanchez, José Miguel Cruz
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Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Philippe M. Frowd, Élodie Apard, Ini Dele-Adedeji
Niger’s status as a ‘hub’ for West African migration is now cemented in the imaginaries of interveners and global observers. Even as the number of migrants transiting the country falls sharply from a peak in 2015, the policies and practices on the part of the Nigerien government, its local partners, and international actors, continue to coalesce around irregular migration as a major security priority
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To become ‘ndrangheta in Calabria: organisational narrative criminology and the constitution of mafia organisations Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Anna Sergi
The ‘ndrangheta is a mafia group from Calabria, Southern Italy. Considerable efforts have been made to understand the structures and the organisation of this mafia, not only in the province of Reggio Calabria where it originated, but also in other Calabrian provinces and even outside the Calabrian region. Building on judicial data from a recent maxi-trial (Rinascita-Scott) against ‘ndrangheta clans
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Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Gabriella E. Sanchez, Georgios A. Antonopoulos
This special issue of Trends in Organized Crime brings together recent empirical research on migrant smuggling. Challenging the overemphasis on ‘organized crime’ and criminal networks that has long characterized mainstream discussions on smuggling, the contributions refocus our attention towards critical but underexamined dynamics present in the facilitation of irregular migration in a variety of geographic
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The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Karolina Augustova, David Leone Suber
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Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Anita Lavorgna
Criminological literature on crime and deviance in cyberspace has boomed in recent years with most studies focusing on computer integrity crimes, computer content crimes and financial cybercrimes, also discussing the opportunity to consider some of these crimes as profit-driven forms of organised crime. The existing literature, however, has not addressed extensively yet the impact of the emergence
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Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Jonathan Lusthaus, Edward Kleemans, Rutger Leukfeldt, Michael Levi, Thomas Holt
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Safety, intimacy and defiance in the context of border control and counter-smuggling: Algeria’s ghettos, maquis and ngandas Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Kheira Arrouche
There has been scant examination into how West and Central African migrants experience and respond to migration enforcement and counter-smuggling policies in the context of Algeria. In recent years, Algeria’s opaque migratory policies against both irregular migrants and all mechanisms facilitating their mobility –including incarceration and removal to remote parts of the country—have intensified. Drawing
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A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Ahlam Chemlali
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COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Justin Kotzé, Anthony Lloyd, Georgios A. Antonopoulos
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 special issue is to draw together a range of empirical studies from around the world to explore the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for both organized criminals and law enforcement agencies. The pandemic required organized criminals to adapt their
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Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Jo-Anne Kramer, Arjan A. J. Blokland, Edward R. Kleemans, Melvin R. J. Soudijn
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Coyotes, caravans, and the Central American migrant smuggling continuum Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Amelia Frank-Vitale
In this article, I draw from ten years of accompaniment with migrant caravans in Mexico to argue that the caravan as a mobility tactic emerges in response to the increased difficulties and costs of moving across space without authorization as a consequence of the externalization of the US-Mexico border. I demonstrate how, in this context, the caravan and coyotaje – the term used across the Americas
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Law incentives for juvenile recruiting by drug trafficking gangs: empirical evidence from Rio de Janeiro Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Daniel Montolio, Cristiano Oliveira
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Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Eirini Stamouli, Margarita Gasparinatou, Christos Kouroutzas
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Exploring the relationship between super bowls and potential online sex trafficking Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Xi Huang, Brianna R. Yoder, Alexis Tsoukalas, Rebecca M. Entress, Abdul-Akeem Sadiq
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On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Sebastián García
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Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Amber Horning, Michelle Poirier, Roisin Bermingham, Christopher Thomas
This paper explores sex market facilitators’ (SMFs’) sex trade rules or 'facilitation styles,' work dyads, the use of violence, and attitudes about sex workers. We interviewed 37 SMFs in New York City who facilitated sex work 'long-term' (for at least five years). SMFs exhibited a range of trade rules, many of which were about maintaining control over the work setting and sex workers. Those who worked
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The “Nigerian mafia” feedback loop: European police, global media and Nigerian civil society Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Corentin Cohen
This article looks at the discourses regarding Nigerian confraternities’ expansion to Europe. It analyses how networks of individuals working together for solidarity, economic or political objectives became categorized as organised crime or as a mafia. I use original data and police investigations, interviews with members and victims, judges, police officers, and journalists to show how the work of
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When prison gangs become organized crime: Studying protection arrangements and their consequences Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 R. V. Gundur, Rebecca Trammell
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 only the largest prison systems in the US. This introduction to this special issue, Prison Gangs as Organized Crime, provides an overview of notable literature on the emergence and evolution of prison gangs, their relationships with protection, and their
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Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Sarah Schreier, Katharina Leimbach
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Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Gisela Bichler, Alexis Norris
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The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Andrew Childs
This paper provides the first exploration of the online distribution of fake Australian COVID-19 vaccine certificates. Drawing on a collection of 2589 posts between five distributors and their community members on the alt-tech platform Gab, this study gathers key insights into the mechanics of illicit vaccine certificate distribution. The qualitative findings in this research demonstrate the various
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Co-offending networks among members of outlaw motorcycle gangs across types of crime Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 David Bright, Giovanni Sadewo, Timothy I. C. Cubitt, Christopher Dowling, Anthony Morgan
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Cultivating Cannabis in a paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justification for breaking the law Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Marcelo Moriconi, Carlos Anibal Peris
Paraguay has become the main cannabis producer in South America and one of the largest exporters in the world. Some investigations about the cultivation of marijuana in the country portray a cruel environment in which peasants are exploited in “almost feudal” conditions by intermediaries who buy their crops at unreasonably low prices. However, a group of peasants who use the Mbaracayú Forest Nature
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Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom Trends in Organized Crime (IF 2.552) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Monica Pons-Hernandez, Tanya Wyatt, Alexandra Hall
The illicit market in veterinary medicines is an overlooked issue despite threatening the health of non-human and human animals. It is thought to be increasing within the major markets of the global North due to the growth of e-commerce and social media sites. This paper examines the online market in illicit veterinary medicines through an exploratory study of the public’s online experiences as pet