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Women, Brokerage and Transnational Organized Crime. Empirical Results From the Dutch Organized Crime Monitor

open access: yesTrends in Organized Crime, 2014
This paper analyzes the role of women in various types of transnational organized crime and tests the ‘gendered markets’ hypothesis by Zhang et al. (Criminology 45(3):699–733 2007) for a wide cross-section of 150 cases from the Dutch Organized Crime ...
Edwin W Kruisbergen, Edward Kleemans
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Transnational Organized Crime

2012
Abstract The legal response at an international level to the threat of transnational organized crime has been plagued by difficulty in deciding on an appropriate target: the ‘king pins’ involved in diverse forms of transnational crime, the suppression of criminal activities that criminal organizations become involved in, or pursuit of ...
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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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Transnational Organized Crime

2020
Criminal organizations have opened up to profound global transformations, putting themselves on the financial markets and creating a network in Mafia style. The present contribution intends to offer a framework of transnational criminal organizations, starting from defining aspects, normative forecasts and peculiarities, and then describing the Italian
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Criminal Organization and Transnational Crime

2015
Criminal organization is dependent on context, place, and time. However, in the study of organized crime, criminal organization is often conceptualized without a wider view on the context within which opportunities for criminal activities arise and in which criminal networks develop that take advantage of these opportunities.
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The practice of transnational organized crime

2015
Transnational organized crime (TOC) is commonly associated with offenders who freely roam a globalized world. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an alternative view; one which assumes that political borders as well as legal, cultural and language barriers continue to pose substantial challenges for criminals.
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Local Policing and Transnational Organized Crime

International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 2011
This paper discusses the problems associated with a crime management model that is underpinned by the geographical reach of the investigating agencies, and the merits of different models of policing that work to counter transnational organized crime.
Stan Gilmour, Robert France
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Transnational Organized Crime

2017
Contents: Introduction Part I Introduction: The interdisciplinary dimensions of the study of organized crime, Klaus von Lampe. Part II Ethnicity, Illegal Enterprises and Upward Mobility: Crime as an American way of life: a queer ladder of social mobility, Daniel Bell Strategic decision making in organized crime control: the need for a broadened ...
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Women in transnational organized crime

Trends in Organized Crime, 2013
The last two decades have seen a number of publications showing that women play an important role in transnational organized crime. The recent focus on this subject has revealed a growing body of evidence to suggest that women have been active as members and leaders of criminal organizations around the world in various periods of history. This evidence
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