Organized crime groups: A systematic review of individual-level risk factors related to recruitment. [PDF]
Campbell Syst Rev, 2022 Background 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 ...
Calderoni F +5 more
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COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic. [PDF]
Trends Organ Crime, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for organized criminal groups and confronted them with new challenges. Analysis of how these groups have reacted to the pandemic yields better understanding of how they work and enables the devising of ...
Aziani A +3 more
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Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands. [PDF]
Trends Organ Crime, 2021 Based on the conceptualizations of organized crime as both an enterprise and a form of governance, borderland as a spatial category, and borders as institutions, this paper looks at the politics of bordering practices by organized crime in the Colombian ...
García Pinzón V, Mantilla J.
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Making sense of professional enablers' involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation. [PDF]
Trends Organ Crime, 2021 Money laundering has ascended the enforcement and criminological agenda in the course of this century, and has been accompanied by an increased focus on legal professionals as ‘enablers’ of crime.
Levi M.
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Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia
Social Science Research Network, 2023 This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find that city council dismissals (CCDs)
Alessandra Fenizia, R. Saggio
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Organized crime and waste management costs
Regional studies, 2022 The paper investigates the link between organized crime and municipal solid waste management costs. Using a panel dataset of 7069 Italian municipalities in the 2015–19 period, we find that organized crime operating in the environmental sector is ...
Francesca Di Pillo +2 more
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The determinants of group membership in organized crime in the UK: A network study
Global crime, 2022 In this paper, we explore the determinants of co-membership in organised crime groups in a British police force. We find that co-membership of OCGs is higher among individuals who share the same ethnicity and nationality; who have committed acts of ...
Paolo Campana, Federico Varese
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Co-offending and Criminal Careers in Organized Crime
Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2022 The growing research on co-offending over the life course is based on relatively small, general offending samples, followed for a short period, and from a limited set of countries.
Cecilia Meneghini, F. Calderoni
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Trends in Organized Crime, 2022 In this article, we aim to further our understanding of the social embeddedness of organized crime by exploring the (possible) ways the social environment adds to the shielding of organized crime or criminal activities by organized crime groups. We argue
Robert A. Roks +2 more
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Recruitment into Organized Crime: An Agent-Based Approach Testing the Impact of Different Policies
Journal of quantitative criminology, 2021 We test the effects of four policy scenarios on recruitment into organized crime. The policy scenarios target (i) organized crime leaders and (ii) facilitators for imprisonment, (iii) provide educational and welfare support to children and their mothers ...
F. Calderoni +4 more
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