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Global Crime, 2004
Secret societies have always been endemic to Chinese overseas communities, surviving on fear and corruption and prospering through their involvement in a wide range of legal and illegal businesses. For many years, Hong Kong was seen as the 'capital' of this worldwide Chinese criminal fraternity and, in the 1980s, many outside observers and analysts ...
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Secret societies have always been endemic to Chinese overseas communities, surviving on fear and corruption and prospering through their involvement in a wide range of legal and illegal businesses. For many years, Hong Kong was seen as the 'capital' of this worldwide Chinese criminal fraternity and, in the 1980s, many outside observers and analysts ...
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International Annals of Criminology, 2001
1. Transnational organised crime is now the most significant trend in world crime. This concept of criminology covers a wide range of offences, violent or sophisticated, but all extremely serious and having in common the fact that they are committed by individuals operating in networks.
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1. Transnational organised crime is now the most significant trend in world crime. This concept of criminology covers a wide range of offences, violent or sophisticated, but all extremely serious and having in common the fact that they are committed by individuals operating in networks.
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Recruitment to organised crime [PDF]
, 2013 Organised crime is unique within the underground economy. Unlike individual criminals, criminal organisations can substitute between a variety of inputs; chiefly labour and effort. This paper considers the effect of several popular anti-crime policies in such an environment.
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Cyber‐Organised Crime — The Impact of Information Technology on Organised Crime
Journal of Financial Crime, 2001Some have argued that organised crime is a problem of the last quarter of the 20th century and in the case of most states is a new phenomenon. Of course, so much depends upon what is meant by organised crime. Groups of individuals formed and managed to perpetrate acts against the law are nothing new.
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Organising Financial Crimes: Breaking the Economic Power of Organised Crime Groups?
2003The political assumption behind many components of the anti-organised crime strategy is that there is a serious threat that if we do not prevent them, organised criminals will seize economic and social power. In addition to any personal appetite for risk-takingiawhich may be higher among offenders (and senior business executives, where the two ...
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The Journal of Criminal Law
Organised crime poses a serious threat to the rule of law, both nationally and internationally and is characterised by planned criminal activity aimed at financial gain. This comment considers the extent and challenges posed by organised crime in the UK and elsewhere, and the methods used to tackle such crime both nationally and internationally.
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Organised crime poses a serious threat to the rule of law, both nationally and internationally and is characterised by planned criminal activity aimed at financial gain. This comment considers the extent and challenges posed by organised crime in the UK and elsewhere, and the methods used to tackle such crime both nationally and internationally.
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Street Life, Crime and (Dis)Organised Crime
2019Following on from the theme of the last chapter which highlighted the formation, membership process, and other structural characterises of gang types in the research context, this chapter continue by presenting the gang, again within the typology framework, and explores gang activity in a more generic sense.
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