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Organized crime in cyberspace: How traditional organized criminal groups exploit the online peer-to-peer lending market in China

, 2020
How do traditional organized criminal groups run their offline businesses on the internet? Drawing on interview data, news reports and interactions with illegal moneylenders, this article examines how loan sharks use the online peer-to-peer lending ...
Peng Wang, Mei Su, Jingyi Wang
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The Economic Geographies of Organized Crime. By Tim Hall

, 2020
The Economic Geographies of Organized Crime by Tim Hall is a magisterial, wellstructured, extended review of and meditation on the literature on organized crime, and its relation to economic geography.
Justin V. Hastings
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Italian Organized Crime since 1950

Crime and justice, 2020
Italian mafias—Cosa Nostra, Camorra, and ‘Ndrangheta—are long-lived, resilient organizations that have evolved to adapt to environmental changes. They have different organizational models. While Cosa Nostra (in the past) and ‘Ndrangheta are characterized
M. Catino
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Transnational Organized Crime

2018
In this chapter, students will learn about how transnational organized crime has emerged during the last two decades as one of a series of threats posed to national and international security by violent non-state actors. The chapter outlines what is meant by transnational organized crime then examines the rise of the phenomenon, suggesting that its ...
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Organized Crime in Asia

2020
The significance of Asia’s rising economy and emergent foreign trade provides a conducive climate for the proliferation of organized crime. A reflexive exploration of organized crime in the Asian context ought to address two interrelated issues. The first relates to the ontological and epistemological effort to delineating Asia as a region that is not ...
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Transnational Organized Crime

2015
Even in history, criminals crossed borders to commit crimes, traffic in illicit goods, and provide illegal services. More recently, however, opportunities for transnational (organized) crime have increased, in particular because of the growing level of mobility, the opening of borders and the advent of the Internet.
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Organized Crime and High Crime Equilibrium

2018
This chapter studies the high crime equilibrium and provides an explanation for how crime for profit has evolved in most countries into very violent criminality. An overview of the organizations that specialize in different types of crimes is offered, with special attention drawn to the important spillover effect this has in producing crimes such as ...
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How Is ‘Organized Crime’ Organized?

2019
In this chapter, we explore the usefulness of applying the idea of partial organization as one way of mitigating the confusion surrounding the notion of organized crime.
Göran Ahrne, Aamir Rostami
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Organized crime in Brazil

Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the origins and development of organized crime in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach – The authors draw on their experience working in law enforcement for many years in Brazil.
George Henry Millard, Tim Hundleby
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Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000

International Human Rights Law Documents, 2018
The basic purpose of the Protocol is to prevent and combat trafficking, to protect and assist victims and to promote international cooperation. The protection of, and assistance to, victims is specified as a core purpose of the Protocol.
C. Vega
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