Abstract In this article, we aim to further our understanding of the social embeddedness organized crime by exploring (possible) ways environment adds shielding or criminal activities groups. We argue that metaphor ‘walls silence’ provides a fruitful way examine crime. Based on theoretical and empirical exploration 30 cases from fifth data sweep Dutch Organized Crime Monitor, illustrate how off...

the "dark figure" of crime—that is, about occurrences that by some criteria are called crime yet that are not registered in the statistics of whatever agency was the source of the data being used. Contending arguments arose about the dark figure between the "realists" who emphasized the virtues of completeness with which data represent the "real crime" that takes place and the "institutio...

Abstract In the advancing understanding of crime-terror nexus, organized crime and terrorist entities are increasingly seen as capable pursuing multiple agendas simultaneously, with potential to ultimately reach convergence. Applying Makarenko’s theoretical work on convergence, this article sets out explain persistence in Iraq after fall Islamic State Syria (ISIS) Caliphate, based a literature ...

Abstract Crime script analysis is becoming an increasingly used approach for examining organized crime. scripts can use data from multiple sources, including open sources of intelligence (OSINT). Limited guidance exists, however, on how to populate the content a crime with data, and validate these data. This results in being generated intuitively, restricts them scrutinised their quality, limit...

human domination over time and space and, consequently, globalization of crime has led to new opportunities of global nature to commit crime. globalized crimes occur in an organized fashion to bring profit to and serve violent purposes of criminals around the world, threatening human dignity, safety, and fundamental rights, compromising international security, and denying humans of their right ...

In analyzing the situation, it is clear that most crime and violence is local in scope, affecting primarily the direct victim and local community. However, there is also a global dimension to the causes and, potentially, the solutions. For example, in the case of Latin America, the demand for illegal drugs in the USA and Europe has a clear impact on drug supply and organized crime in a number o...

The crime-terror nexus includes two independent, but related, components. First, it incorporates the straightforward involvement in criminal activities by terrorists as a source of funding, and second, it refers to the linkages between organized criminal organizations and terrorist groups. Indeed, the criminal and political organizations appear to be learning from each other, adopting each othe...

Eleven years of financial loss data from the CSI annual Computer Crime and Security surveys have been analysed to discover whether or not they obey some form of power law relationship. Evidence is adduced for the existence of both single and double power laws, and their characteristic exponents are determined, together with various statistical and probabilistic reliability measures. The finding...