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Organized Crime

Histories of Transnational Criminal Law, 2021
Abstract Serena Forlati examines the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). From an historical perspective. Standing back from the treaty, she analyses how the converging concerns of European states with cross-border crime and US concerns about the post-Cold War threat posed by organized crime together with a ...
Antonio Nicaso, Marcel Danesi
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Why Global North criminology fails to explain organized crime in Mexico

open access: yesTheoretical Criminology, 2022
The prevailing definitions of organized crime and methodological approaches to studying it derive mainly from the Global North. However, an emergent body of literature suggests that organized crime in the Global South differs from organized crime in the ...
Valentin Pereda
exaly   +2 more sources

Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle

open access: yesTrends in Organized Crime, 2021
The illegal wildlife trade has increasingly been linked to organized crime in recent years. In particular, Chinese crime groups seem to be major players in more organized forms of this trade.
Daan P Van Uhm   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Organized Crime and Firms: Evidence from Antimafia Enforcement Actions

Management Sciences, 2023
We exploit staggered municipality-level antimafia enforcement actions in Italy over the 1995–2015 period to study how the presence of organized crime affects firms.
Pablo Slutzky, Stefan Zeume
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Principiis Obsta: Strategies of Narrative Resistance to Italian Organized Crime Governance

Deviant Behavior, 2023
Organized crime controls and exploits the communities where they operate by way of governance. Organized crime governance also manifests itself through master narratives, which are standard views of social reality.
Fabio I. M. Poppi
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The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study

British Journal of Criminology, 2022
The paper provides a theoretical framework for categorizing organized crime groups based on what they do – whether they produce, trade or govern – as well as their aims.
N. Breuer, Federico Varese
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico

Comparative Political Studies, 2021
What are the legacies of armed resistance? Why do some communities engage in armed mobilization in response to violence, disorder, and insecurity, while others under very similar conditions do not?
Javier Osorio   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Organized Crime and Firms' Financial Statements: Evidence from Criminal Investigations in Italy

Accounting Review, 2021
We investigate how connections to organized crime manifest on firms' financial statements and analyze the impact of these connections on firm performance outcomes. Using a unique dataset that identifies Italian firms connected to organized crime, we find
P. Bianchi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nested Complex Crime: Assessing the Convergence of Wildlife Trafficking, Organized Crime and Loose Criminal Networks

, 2021
Wildlife trafficking is considered to be an example of a transnational organized crime by policymakers and enforcement agencies. Empirically, however, there is mixed support for this.
William D Moreto, D. Uhm
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cybercrime and Organized Crime

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2018
The way of live in the modern society has changed radically over the past few decades. In particular, thanks to the strong use of information technology, many activities have moved from the real world to the digital world. This has obviously introduced advantages in terms of data management and communication efficiency.
Václav Jirovský   +3 more
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