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Towards digital organized crime and digital sociology of organized crime [PDF]

open access: yesTrends in Organized Crime, 2022
AbstractAs technology has changed people’s lives, criminal phenomena are also constantly evolving. Today’s digital society is changing the activities of organized crime and organized crime groups. In the digital society, very different organized crime groups coexist with different organizational models: from online cybercrime to traditional organized ...
Di Nicola Andrea
exaly   +5 more sources

Organized Crime and Preventive Justice. [PDF]

open access: yesEthical Theory Moral Pract, 2018
By comparison with the prevention of terrorism, the prevention of acts of organized crime might be thought easier to conceptualize precisely and less controversial to legislate against and police. This impression is correct up to a point, because it is possible to arrive at some general characteristics of organized crime, and because legislation ...
Sorell T.
europepmc   +5 more sources

New Dynamics, New Opportunities: Trends in Organised Crime in Ukraine After Russia’s Invasion

open access: yesLSE Public Policy Review, 2023
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 reshaped the way organised crime operated within Ukraine and how it interacted with criminal interests in other countries, disrupting some forms of illicit business and generating new ...
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
doaj   +1 more source

Special Section Introduction: Exploring the Nexus between Human Vulnerabilities and Environmental Crime

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022
This essay introduces the concept of environmental crime in its multiple forms and highlights the ways both the crimes themselves and related legislations compound existing vulnerabilities and generate new ones within communities, most often in the so ...
Virginia Comolli, Alastair MacBeath
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Resources and Their Linkage to Political Agendas for Armed Groups in Cities

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
Rapid urbanisation in countries undergoing or recovering from armed conflict has imposed severe strain on public services and governance. It has also been accompanied by increasing policy and academic concern about the vulnerability of cities to armed ...
Antônio Sampaio
doaj   +1 more source

Fulfilling the Promise of Palermo? A Political History of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
UNTOC created a legally binding instrument governing international cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities to share evidence and pursue international criminal actors, and a framework for countries to update their legislation to be ...
Ian Tennant
doaj   +1 more source

Correction: Drugs and Development in the Urban Setting—Expanding Development-Oriented Interventions Beyond Illicit Drug Crop Cultivation

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
This article details a correction to the article: Diskul, M.L.D., Collins, J. and Brombacher, D., 2021. Drugs and Development in the Urban Setting—Expanding Development-Oriented Interventions Beyond Illicit Drug Crop Cultivation.
M. L. Dispanadda Diskul   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drugs and Development in the Urban Setting—Expanding Development-Oriented Interventions Beyond Illicit Drug Crop Cultivation

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
This paper highlights the complex and contested relationship between drugs and development policies globally. It uses a recent experience in Thailand to showcase the link between drugs and development policies while highlighting the difficult ...
M. L. Dispanadda Diskul   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Illicit to Value Added: The Lessons of Community and Institutional Change in Northern Thailand’s Opium Growing Regions

open access: yesLSE Public Policy Review, 2021
International drug control remains a polarised and complex sphere of policy debate. Until relatively recently the predominant global response was one of repression and strict prohibition. Within this paradigm, small scale producers have been caught up in
John Collins   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychosocial characteristics of victims of special fraud among Japanese older adults: A cross-sectional study using scam vulnerability scale

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Despite the police preventing special fraud victimisation of older adults, both the number of cases and the amount of damage have remained high in Japan.
Daisuke Ueno   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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