Search Results - subject_exact:"Organised crime"

The geopolitics of organised crime : national cecurity threats and financial counteraction

Gara, Mario - 2026

Transnational criminal organisations (TCOs) either drive or are severely impacted by all global trends shaping the geopolitical landscape. The hybrid warfare that states are engaging in offers TCOs new opportunities to thrive as a result of geocriminality-that is, the strategic weaponisation of...

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Applying the transplantation framework to JNIM's expansion in the Sahara-Sahel : a criminological lens

Kapetanovic, Tin - 2025

This article analyses the expansion of Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) across the Sahara-Sahel, using the transplantation framework from criminology to explore how the group relocated. By focussing on this case study, the article offers an examination of how JNIM strategically embedded...

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Cohesion or collusion? : EU funds in places with corrupt local institutions

Di Cataldo, Marco; Renzullo, Elena; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2025

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Cohesion or collusion? : EU funds in places with corrupt local institutions

Di Cataldo, Marco; Renzullo, Elena; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2025

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The quiet payoff : mafia electoral support and policy inaction

Magli, Alessio Carrozzo; Righetto, Giovanni Margarido; … - 2025 - This version: December 2025

Organised crime groups often deliver electoral support to politicians, yet how they are rewarded remains unclear. Using data from Sicilian municipalities (1992-2022), we show that narrowly won races by Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi's party, coincide with sharp declines in the reallocation of...

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Risk assessment of economic organised crime in Ukraine

Korystin, Oleksandr; Kardashevskyy, Yuriy; Baskov, Vitalii - 2024

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Trying to make it : the enterprises, gangs, and people of the American Drug Trade by R.V. Gundur

Berry, Mark - 2024

This is a review of the 2023 IASOC Prize Winner Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade. By R.V. Gundur. Gundur offers a masterful account of the inner workings of the illicit drugs trade from the Mexico-US Border into the USA. His ethnography examines...

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Trying to make it: The enterprises, gangs, and people of the American Drug Trade by R.V. Gundur

Berry, Mark - 2024

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Push- und Pull-Faktoren transnationaler Geldwäscheströme in Deutschland

Neuenkirch, Matthias; El-Ghazi, Mohamad; Hoffmann, Alina; … - 2026

Geldwäsche ist ein transnationales Phänomen. Inkriminierte Vermögenswerte werden über Grenzen hinweg verschoben - gerade im Bereich organisierter Kriminalität gelangen die in einem Staat erzielten Erträge aus kriminellen Aktivitäten regelmäßig ins Ausland, um sie dem Zugriff der...

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An unholy alliance : the relationship between organized crime and corruption in Italy

Chiariello, Valentina; Dincer, Oguzhan - 2026

We investigate the long-run relationship between organized crime and corruption using data from 20 Italian regions over 30 years. As Rose-Ackerman and Palifka (2018) argue, corruption and organized crime often go together. Our study contributes to the literature in several ways in terms of...

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The Mafia–cancer nexus : evidence from the land of fires

Beraldo, Sergio; Collaro, Michela; Leone, Fabio; … - 2026

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Organized crime, hidden pollution, and long-run health costs

Cipullo, Davide; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; … - 2026

We study the long-run health effects of illegal toxic waste disposal conducted by organized crime in Italy. We exploit quasi-random variation in historical wind direction around contaminated sites combined with a difference-in-differences design. Using administrative data on cancer deaths...

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Regulating the crypto-laundering chain : a comparative study of scam compounds and money mule mechanisms within criminal networks

Arnone, Gioia - 2026

This paper examines how scam compounds, money mules and crypto-assets operate as interdependent elements of contemporary money-laundering chains. It assesses whether existing anti-money laundering (AML) and crypto-asset regulatory frameworks are capable of disrupting these chains holistically,...

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Strategic choices in money laundering : smurfing, layering, and financial over-diversification

Contreras, Alfredo; Villa, Edgar - 2026

Money laundering enables criminal organizations to integrate illicit funds into the legal economy while evading detection, posing significant challenges for regulators and policymakers. We develop a formal framework to examine criminal organizations' choice between two money laundering methods....

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Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2026

Organized crime groups (OCGs) are often thought to infiltrate firms to benefit from or support criminal activities, such as corruption, false invoicing, and the provision of illicit goods. We show that much of infiltration-especially among large firms-serves a different purpose: firms are...

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Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

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Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

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Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

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Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

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Iranian outsourcing of state political objectives to criminal actors

Shelley, Louise I. - 2026

States have long-used their own criminals to achieve political objectives. This phenomenon is being supplemented by a new modus operandi: the outsourcing of criminal activity to non-domestic crime groups in both Europe and the United States. This strategy, as this paper will reveal, has been...

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Essays in political economics

Frattini, Federico Fabio - 2023

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When crime tears communities apart : social capital and organised crime

Calamunci, Francesca; Frattini, Federico F. - 2023

What is the long-term effect of organised crime presence on social capital accumulation? By leveraging novel social capital and organised crime data, this study investigates this question within the Italian landscape. In an instrumental variable (IV) setting, we exploit the forced resettlement...

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When Crime Tears Communities Apart : Social Capital and Organised Crime

Calamunci, Francesca Maria; Frattini, Federico Fabio - 2023

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Mafia infiltrations in times of crisis : evidence from the Covid-19 shock

Castelluccio, Marco; Rizzica, Lucia - 2025

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Mafia infiltrations in times of crisis : evidence from the Covid-19 shock

Castelluccio, Marco; Rizzica, Lucia - 2023

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Prevention of legalisation (laundering) of criminal proceeds in the mechanism of ensuring economic security of the state

Nazymko, Ehor; Volobuieva, Olena; Kryzhanovskyi, Oleksii - 2023

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New dynamics, new opportunities : trends in organised crime in Ukraine after Russia's invasion

2023

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Organized crime and banks: Assessing the effects of anti-mafia police actions on lending

Buchetti, Bruno; Fabrizi, Michele; Ipino, Elisabetta; … - 2025

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The Quiet Payoff: Mafia Electoral Support and Policy Inaction

Magli, Alessio Carrozzo; Righetto, Giovanni; Schiavone, … - 2025

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Disentangling and demystifying converging crimes and illegal wildlife trade in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Canada

Anagnostou, Michelle; Doberstein, Brent; Armitage, Derek; … - 2025

Illegal wildlife trade is increasingly reported as intersecting with other serious crimes, a phenomenon labelled "crime convergence". However, there is limited empirical research on the extent and nature of these linkages. The present study seeks to understand what criminal activities converge...

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The risk of mafia infiltration in Italian municipalities : statistical and machine learning evidence from financial information

Iezzi, Stefano; Pauselli, Claudio - 2025

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Unearthing the nexus : latifundia, earthquakes, and the emergence of the Sicilian Mafia

Battisti, Michele; Bernardo, Giovanni; Kourtellos, Andros; … - 2025

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The mafia's economic grip : firm efficiency and a composite indicator of organized crime

Forgione, Antonio Fabio; Migliardo, Carlo - 2025

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Green grease : environmental crime, corruption and money laundering

Barone, Raffaella; Masciandaro, Donato - 2025

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Strategic cops and robbers?

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Owens, Emily - 2025

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Strategic cops and robbers?

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Owens, Emily - 2025

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Strategic cops and robbers?

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Owens, Emily - 2025

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(I)llicit chains : some new hypotheses regarding a changing global cocaine market

Lien, Nicolas; Feltran, Gabriel de Santis - 2025

International cocaine trafficking from South America has increased significantly over the past decade. Based on mixed-methods research, we hypothesize that this change has been driven primarily by the globalization of its logistics, which has led to relevant technical and political changes along...

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An ontology of organized crime : a meta-analytical framework and enforcement implications

Schneider, Stephen; Martens, Frederick T. - 2025

The author, Stephen Schneider, undertakes a holistic analysis of the numerous definitions, descriptions, and concepts that represent the criminological construct referred to as "organized crime." He provides a critical analysis of those researchers who have trafficked in ethnic and racial...

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Cybercrime in criminology : a systematic review of criminological theories, methods, and concepts

Onwuadiamu, Gift - 2025

As the incidences of traditional crime rates have begun to decline, there has been a surge and shift in the kinds of criminal activities perpetuated by individuals. The recent shift in criminal activities includes organized crime, white-collar crime, and cybercrime.The increased use and access...

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Illegal grain market in Ukraine : harvesting war opportunities

Melnychuk, Tetiana - 2025

Based on empirical evidence, this research: highlights the timeline of changes in Ukrainian agricultural sector since the onset of the full-scale war in 2022 and the maritime blockade affecting exports; examines the relevant transformation of the illegal grain market amid these extraordinary...

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Interconnected challenges : examining the nexus of environmental crime and money laundering in the context of energy transition

Malakouti, Zeynab; Hazrati, Mohammad - 2025

Environmental crime, ranked as the fourth-largest criminal enterprise after drug trafficking, counterfeiting, and human trafficking, encompasses illegal activities such as mineral extraction, land clearance, and waste trafficking. These crimes are closely linked to financial crimes due to their...

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Ukraine : organized crime dynamics in the context of war

2025

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European Union serious and organised crime threat assessment : the changing DNA of serious and organised crime

2025

Europol is the EU's law enforcement agency, supporting the 27 EU Member States in their fight against serious international crime and terrorism. Europol also works closely with non-EU partner countries, other EU agencies and international organisations, strengthening global security through...

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Gulags, crime, and elite violence : origins and consequences of the Russian mafia

Lonsky, Jakub - 2025

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Gulags, crime, and elite violence : origins and consequences of the Russian mafia

Lonsky, Jakub - 2020

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Gulags, Crime, and Elite Violence : Origins and Consequences of the Russian Mafia

Lonsky, Jakub - 2022

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The departed : Italian migration and the American Mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

We document the transplantation of the Sicilian Mafia to the United States in the 1920s, when a large-scale repression campaign in Italy targeted Mafia strongholds and forced many Mafiosi to migrate, and study the resulting short- and long-term effects across neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Using...

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The departed : Italian migration and the American Mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

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The departed : Italian migration and the American Mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

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The departed : Italian migration and the American mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

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