The RUSI Journal is a leading journal on defence and security. First published in 1857, it brings together scholars, decision-makers and practitioners in a unique forum that combines academic rigour with policy relevance.
A Research Article drawing on fieldwork across Europe to examine how organised crime embeds itself in legal economies and institutions, exposing vulnerabilities across current policy approaches.
A Research Article exploring the politics of criminal governance in Latin America and the Caribbean, warning of the risks posed by hardening domestic and regional responses.
Jennifer Scotland reviews Criminality, Political Power and Conflict: Critical Perspectives, edited by José Antonio Gutiérrez and Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín.
Authors from policing, academic and think tank backgrounds team up on a Professional Insight examining how fast-paced technological change has transformed digital crime from a niche issue to a national security problem.
A Research Article arguing that organised crime is underweighted in UK intelligence prioritisation processes despite its centrality to hostile-state operations, reframing the issue as a core component of the national security landscape.
Based on direct field observations, a Professional Insight illustrating how scam compounds fuse digital, physical, financial and political threats within a single, highly integrated operational ecosystem.
The former executive director of Police Services at Interpol offers a Professional Insight arguing that intergovernmental law enforcement is constrained by structural misalignment.
Based on experience in northern Nigeria, a Professional Insight examining the shifting nexus between organised crime and ideology, and the implications for traditional understandings of these concepts.
A Research Article in which the authors examine the evolution of UN responses to transnational organised crime, calling for renewed political will and more flexible forms of cooperation.
A Research Article in which the authors use a state-domain matrix to map how states outsource covert tasks to criminal networks, proposing cross-government cells to better integrate responses.
