Criminal networks
Niles Breuer
Institution: University of Oxford
Area of Expertise: Criminal networks, Data analytics, Disruption, Drug trafficking, Mafia, Money laundering
Catch Me If You Can: Mafia’s Infiltration into Italy’s Healthcare System
This blog joint second place winner of the 2023 winner of the Bill Tupman Prize, submitted in partnership with the ECPR-SGOG Summer School. Essential to millions of Italians, healthcare has not gone untouched by the Mafia’s ever-diversifying business models and influential reach. Rather, inadequate controls may leave an opening for…
Trafficking into Forced Criminality: the Rise of Scam Centres in Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, a growing number of scam centres have been identified, where recruits groom victims online to encourage investment in fraudulent schemes. But these recruits are victims themselves; tricked with job offers in another country, they are forced into criminality. Described using the Chinese term Shāzhūpán, or ‘pig-butchering scams’,…
Peter Toogood
Institution: Neon Caltrop Consulting Limited
Area of Expertise: Criminal networks, Disruption, Intelligence, Modern slavery and human trafficking, Policing, Threat assessment
Rob Le Core
Institution: Northwest Regional Organised Crime Unit (Titan)
Area of Expertise: Criminal networks, Drug trafficking, Intelligence, Policing, Recruitment
Dr Derica Lambrechts
Institution: Stellenbosch University
Area of Expertise: Corruption, Criminal networks, Drug trafficking, Gangs, Recruitment, State control, Wildlife and forest crime
Understanding the Female Wildlife Offender: Lessons from the Case Files
Closed case reviews indicate that gender norms might be as harmful as they are helpful in understanding female involvement in wildlife crime, with better evidence needed to inform enforcement strategies. The role of women in relation to wildlife crime is viewed through a lens of localised gender norms, social conventions…
Raluca-Ioana MOCANU
Institution: University of Bucharest
Area of Expertise: Contraband / counterfeit products, Corruption, Crime prevention and criminal justice, Criminal networks, Discourse, Drug trafficking, Extortion, Fraud, Gangs, Illicit cigarettes and tobacco, Law, Mafia, Modern slavery and human trafficking, Money laundering, Organ trafficking, Prisons, Recruitment, State control, Terrorism, Trafficking in cultural property, Wildlife and forest crime
The ‘Global Power Competition – Transnational Organised Crime’ Nexus: Lessons from Michoacán
How does strategic competition between the United States and China influence the evolution of transnational organised crime in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? Although it is becoming increasingly visible, the “global power competition – transnational organised crime’ nexus remains unexplored in national and international scholarship as well as in…
Europe’s Guns: A Threat and Opportunity the UK Can’t Ignore
The senseless shooting of Elle Edwards on Christmas Eve shocked the UK. Similar tragedies in the UK often have their origins in the supply of illicit firearms from Europe. To stem and turn the tide against gun violence, we must look towards Europe. In 5 years as the National Crime…